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[quote=Anonymous]To everyone who is saying that you don't need to go to an Ivy or Ivy type school to get rich--that is absolutely true...

However, Ivy & Ivy type undergrad & grads represent a disproportionate number of the well off.  A much higher percentage of these grads are successful financially than at an average school.  What percentage of Virginia Tech grads are financially successful?  A much lower percentage than Harvard grads.  That doesn't mean that there aren't examples of very successful Virginia Tech grads.

The chances of becoming  a Fortune 500 CEO are analogous to being a successful professional athlete, movie star/rock star, etc.

Those slots represent a small slice of the financially successful in this country.  A far higher number are Wall Streeters, biglaw partners, tech & healthcare entrepreneurs, large medical practice owners, etc

To the double ivy league grad--if you don't realize that a much higher percentage of your classmates are financially successful than Virginia Tech then you may not understand how a lot of the rest of your class lives.

If you look at private equity, hedge fund, asset management, strategy consulting, investment banking, biglaw, etc my guess is over 50% of professionals have either an undergrad or a graduate degree from an ivy or ivy type of institution.[/quote]

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