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Sorry, but I've personally witnessed job candidates have doors open at the sight of the Ivy name on their resume. In multiple different fields.

The brand value is real, and wishing it weren't so doesn't change reality.

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Where you go to college can and does matter.  No doubt about that.  Now you can screw that up and you can go somewhere not as great ad have a great outcome.  All of those things can be true together.

As to your first story ---- could be true -- of course you do not see what is going on fully.  Second story is only true if the kid did not want a job right away or if they are at the bottom of their class.  At an Ivy I would let a kid major in whatever they wanted because it is the major that does not matter.  But you also can't be at the bottom.  [b]The Comp lit major with great grades can go anywhere on Wall Street if she/he wants to[/b]; any law school; really any job that they want.  Can't say the same for a Comp Lit major at Towson (which is also a good school).

It matters but you can screw it up and you ca get where you want to go without it just a bit harder.[/quote]

My DD graduated from an Ivy with a degree in Comp lit and good grades but still jobless since May '22.  [/quote]

Troll, you only had to write one sentence.  Curious how there's all these starving artists with no prospects, yet we can tell by the writing samples, none of them are raking muck around here.  Either get yourself some training or workshop your material through a chatbot.  You embarrass yourself, you don't have a daughter (why not son? wouldn't that be more upsetting?), you don't know anyone at an Ivy, and most definitely not anyone who studied lit.[/quote]

OP here. Why do you think that PP is a troll? It is totally understanding that her DD is unemployed — who the hell wants to hire a CompLit major? The only lucrative thing you can do with that is Law School (or Med School if you’ve completed the prerequisites).

Sorry PP, but your daughter would have been WAY better off studying Accounting or Data Analytics at UMD than getting a vanity degree from an Ivy. [/quote]

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