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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Success in life doesn't depend on your undergrad GPA or the school you went to. I thought everybody knew that by now.

Any person's success will depend on

1) Their mindset and attitude
2) Their ability to think critically
3) Their able to communicate well
4) Their work ethic
5) Their willingness to retool and keep their skills updated

So where the bottom 10% land up will depend on whether they possess these qualities. If they do, they will do well. IF they don't they will drop to the bottom of the barrel and since you can't tell who possesses these traits just by looking at their transcripts, this question is ultimately unanswerable. [/quote]

I’d love to live in a world where success is a function of those traits, but, seriously, look around you (i.e. think critically) and see if really can make that claim credibly.

(Not arguing that college/GPA are determinative either.)[/quote]

Yes. I can. Can't you?[/quote]

My two cents.  I have an undergraduate from the University of South Podunk, an MBA from a Darden peer, and an MS in a related field from one of the top schools, public or private in the US.  In the Rust Belt city where I grew up, you will see South Podunk grads rise because you have no high level school grads out here except for the person who went to Harvard and came back to run the family business.  In NYC or DC, the South Podunk grads would never get a look, unless you were promoted nine times in 15 years at GE.  But, My MBA and MS put me in the game because "everyone" has credentials from those types of schools.[/quote]

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