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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a troll. I’m the parent of a HS sophomore who is killing themselves excelling in school and participating in extracurriculars to be competitive for T20.

At the same time, I see parents on here posting how their kid went to Cornell and ended up in the same place as someone who went to Pitt or another similarly ranked school.

At the same time, in my job I work alongside people who have gone to ivies and schools I’ve never heard of. I went to Michigan, btw.

My sister did her undergraduate at Oxford, stayed in the UK and is now partner at a well respected consulting firm alongside other partners that went to no name schools from India.

So seeing the stress my kid goes through, I am honestly asking what is the point of a Yale or Princeton if they take you to the same place that a school like Rutgers and Radford can take you?! [/quote]

In one of those people. I came from a pretty lower middle class rural background, so did only so-so in my Ivy and had NO idea how to manage my career. I thought making $60k was KILLING IT because it was more than my parents had ever made.

I’ll say it was an amazing experience going there, they gave great aid, and I know it opens doors to this day (in my 50s). But I certainly did not take advantage of it well and could easily have the career I have with my rural state flagship.

Also, Michigan is a highly regarded school, especially in engineering it would rank higher than Ivys. [/quote]

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