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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]they have many, many paths to success[/quote]
This is the part that always bugs me though.

OF COURSE there are many potential paths to success.  But it sounds like you and Bruni would have people to believe that the odds of success are going to be exactly the same no matter which path you take.

So you really believe that the odds of success are the same if you go to an Ivy than if you don't?  Bruni's thesis (Ivy degrees don't reliably predict success), even assuming for the sake of argument as true, doesn't answer this question.[/quote]
NP. I don't have any empirical evidence to prove this, but my own experience is that if someone has the credentials to get admitted to an Ivy, whether they actually go or not has little bearing on their post-graduate achievement levels. In other words, the reason Ivy graduates tend to be more successful than graduates from other schools is because those schools admit highly qualified applicants, not because the education that people get there is any better than what they'd get at top 25 SLACs and universities with a more low key environment.[/quote]

Bruni does cite evidence that proves exactly this.[/quote]

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