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For over 40 pages, I don’t see anyone talking about the great professors they had, amazing projects, semester-abroad they experienced seeing the world, personal classmates who went on to change the world and are now household names...  It’s always some generic info they googled they are cutting and pasting. [/quote]

Because almost all of the schools offer semester or year abroad programs. And undergraduate education (not experience) is roughly the same everywhere. The only difference is the perceived value of the name of the school. Certainly the experience, what city you are in, or the physical beauty of a campus, add to value for that student, but it isn't universal.

And....I would argue that a professor at a small, "no name" school is there because they actually want to teach and are passionate about their subject, as opposed to the research universities, where there is so much pressure to publish or perish.[/quote]

True UPenn and Columbia alums/parents will tell you about household names that have gone on to change the world we live in. They might have personally known Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Donald J Trump, Barrack Obama... if they didn’t attend classes together, they would have seen them from many reunions. If not, from orientations, or family days with their kids, grandkids, and their fabulous wives/gfs. [/quote]

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