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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe because there are posts that are basically the same as yours two or three times per week?  You realize you are feeding the obsession, yes?

That said, I will take a crack.  My own view is that because the incredible, outsized outcomes seem to be clustered in elite schools.  If you look at the ranks of billionaire hedge fund, P/E, start-up founders, etc., it is shocking how it is clustered in just like 10 schools.  Of course, not everyone graduated...but just look at the current thread on Open AI the current hottest tech start-up...Stanford drop-out, Harvard drop-out and Duke graduate.  Look at the people/founders getting all the press currently...Musk from Penn, Zuckerberg from Harvard, Bezos from Princeton, etc.  The amount of VC that flows to graduates of the top 10 schools is like 20x the amount flowing to all the other schools combined.

It is no different than if you are an athlete hoping to make it to the Pros.  If you want to play pro football, sure you might get drafted out of North Dakota State, but the number of players drafted out of Alabama guarantees that every pro team is always paying attention to Alabama...while they only pay attention to North Dakota State because one player (Carson Wentz as an example) emerges to generate some buzz.

There will always be the folks arguing that Bezos would still have founded Amazon even if he had gone to the University of New Mexico...but of course he didn't and that is just theoretical.  Yes, 98% of the graduates from Ivy League schools will go on to lead normal, decent lives...and some may fail miserably.  But everyone thinks they can be in the 2% that succeed beyond anyone's wildest imagination.[/quote]

best explanation. [/quote]

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