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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm from the midwest and we would find if odd if a person lived here and went to an Ivy league school. Funny even. We all went to state schools, got jobs and no one cares. [/quote]

But that's only if you want to stay in the Midwest. Plus the Ivy Leaguers generally don't come back, they stay on the East Coast.[/quote]

Well, yeah. It's a regional thing. If you want to live in TX and work in a big city then a degree from UT, A&M, and more and more Texas Tech, are going to do just fine.[b] Better maybe than a Harvard or Yale grad (undergrad) who will be perceived as snobby.[/b]

Same in the South where Vanderbilt and then all the big state schools are king. [/quote]

This. The ivy education only matters if you stay in the careers and locations where it matters. I moved back to the Midwest, and my ivy grad degree + top-25 undergrad are actually a disadvantage when the people doing the hiring went to Indiana Tech or Oklahoma State or something. The number of rude comments making fun of my education from coworkers is astounding. People definitely want to "put me in my place".

I'm also a minority woman who has always worked in overwhelmingly white workplaces, so that definitely plays into people seeing my ivy degree as "uppity" and wanting to put me in my place.[/quote]

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