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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over here eating my popcorn and chuckling at the number of threads that want to debate the importance of prestige at the undergraduate level with huge majority of posts coming down on the side of - you can do great things even if you do not attend HYPS. Which is of course a reasonable and well supported position, thank you Malcolm Gladwell. 
What has me cracking up is I’m betting there is a huge overlap between these posters who say you can go to a range of schools and be successful and the “Big 3” brigade. All the DC posters who ague 24/7 if it is Sidwell GDS STA NCS Maret or whatever because they desperately need their kids school to be in the Big 3. Only the Big 3 have prestige and this makes them feel like their kid will achieve great success in life. But alas even if your kid is at Sidwell or Exeter or whatever not all the kids get in ivies. So now those folks are arguing that elite prestige is not just a small handful of ivies but a bigger list. 
So which is it? If greatness can be developed at Harvard, UVA, and Middlebury, to name a few, then it works the same if it is Sidwell, Bullis, STA, Landon, GDS, Potomac, Whitman or Churchill! Because there are kids from all those schools going to Princeton, Penn, Georgetown, Bucknell and SMU and so on and so on. Bottom line the bickering over prestige is ridiculous. Find schools (high school and undergrad) where your kid fits and thrives because that is their best chance to max their potential and be successful. Stop obsessing over prestige and whether that school bumpersticker on your car validates you are best parent in the DMV.[/quote]
The hair splitting about a bunch of top 100 colleges is stupid. It’s not even an issue most of the time for the OPs, just a bunch of adults obsessed with discussing Wall Street futures no matter the major. Most students land in careers where prestige isn’t even the top 10 concern of a recruiter.[/quote]

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