Reply to Why do people insist that their kid can always "go to an Ivy for grad school?"

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Why do people insist that their kid can always "go to an Ivy for grad school?""

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see a lot of people on this board myopically insist that undergrad prestige doesn't matter and that their kid can go to an Ivy for grad school. This seems misguided. The top firms only recruit from Ivies and other T20 schools. Going to an HYPSM for undergrad will increase your odds of landing at one of them.

If you go to an elite school and do everything right, you don't even need to go to grad school. The people on here saying that their kids at a state school or some no-name SLAC can "always go to an Ivy for grad school" seem misguided. Not all grad schools pay off. I had a woman in my neighborhood say the same thing -- her daughter went to a selective but not elite SLAC, and her mom insisted that her college education paid off since she's at Columbia for her PhD in History. Ummm.... hello?!!!! A PhD in the humanities is the LAST thing I would want my kid to do. [/quote]

I went to a T5 law school and disagree.  Yes, there were 7 kids from Harvard and two others from the T10 I attended.  But the vast majority of the class was from schools outside the T30.  And they did just fine with the prestigious firms.  [/quote]

That's because the smartest kids don't go to law school. I was just talking to a friend of mine who is a lecturer at a T5 law school (maybe even the same one that you went to), and she told me how her students' academic skills and work ethic have gone down the drain in the past decade as the smartest students all go to tech or finance. She mentioned how in the past decade or so, there have been less and less students from Ivies at her T5 law school as Ivy alumni opt to skip law school to go into finance or consulting. [/quote]

To state the obvious, I didn’t go to law school in the past 10 years.  In fact, I went at a time when law school apps were at record highs.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics