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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The handful of recent Ivy League, Vanderbilt and Notre Dame grads we know have normal jobs any young person can get with a state school degree.[/quote]

Yes but they are sure to win the inevitable workplace college prestige dick-measuring contests.[/quote]

Really depends on the workplace. In offices dominated by state schoolers, they don't give a flying f*** a random young colleague went to an elite private. Most of them have no idea how challenging it was to get into such a school, so it means nothing to them. It might even bring you scorn and contempt.[/quote]

Even in offices with people who went to top schools, they usually don’t give a flying f*** because they are grown professionals who stopped caring about the names on diplomas long ago and there is work to be done.[/quote]

I only know where my CEO and my boss attended. They both went to state schools.[/quote]

I work at a non-profit, and both the CEO and CIO graduated from Harvard (BS from Harvard, MS from Oxford, and JD from Harvard), and the CIO graduated from University of Chicago with an MBA from University of Chicago Booth school.  The Chief Legal Officer attended Bowdoin and JD from Harvard.  The CFO attended Harvard with an MBA also from Harvard.  All of them make over 2M/year.  I guess you can see there is a pattern here.  [/quote] That salary? At a nonprofit? Is the pattern "grifting"?[/quote]

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