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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child will be going to UVA. Got rejected from Ivies. What are we missing by not going to Ivies for pre-med. Outside of pre-med, do Ivies and other top schools create employers and other schools create employees[/quote]

If you are going to get a professional grad degree doctors are the least likely to benefit from a prestigious undergraduate degree.

An MBA might get a reasonable amount of value from the prestige of their undergraduate but their MBA program will be more important.  These are the guys who are most likely to casually mention that they went to Harvard for undergrad to go with their Penn MBA.

A lawyer is unlikely to ever have to mention her undergraduate institution, the law school will be important in early career and even mid career and will likely influence what opportunities are available to you in that time.  Unless you went to HYPSM level undergrad but only if you went to a similarly impressive law school.  People generally don't mention their undergrad in the professional setting.  The paralegals are the mostly the ones that talk about their undergrad degree.

A doctor will not only be unlikely to benefit from the prestige of their undergrad degree, their residency is more important to the trajectory of their career than where they got their medical degree.  And that residency will likely be fairly important in their early career opportunities but not much beyond that.  Nobody is going to care if you went to UVA, GMU or Stanford for undergrad, you can't goof around but the name on the bachelors degree never comes up.[/quote]

This.

If you are getting an MD, your undergrad just has to be able to prepare you for medical school.[/quote]

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