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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will say this - look at the 100 richest people in the United States.  Far less than half went to schools considered "elite." [/quote]

Proves nothing.[/quote]

Actually it does, but folks who obsess about the elite schools will never admit it.  I did not attend an elite school and neither did my DH, although the school we attended was the flagship for the state.  Along with some of our college friends, we started a company that we later sold to one of the "big boys" for 8 figures.  We now own two other businesses.  We do have a few elite school graduates working for us who are very smart and will do well in life. We also have smart non-elite school alums working for us also.

I think the rub is that we grew up in a area where going to an elite college was not an obsession.  Most of us went to college but Flagship State U was a perfectly good option for most of us.  We were surrounded by people who were successful and did not attend HYPS colleges.  So we saw that success comes in many ways and in many forms.  IMO, you bloom where you are planted.  If you go to most good schools and do well, opportunities will arise.  [/quote]

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