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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a school with a 96% admit rate. I have a person on my team that went to Harvard.  Bet their parents kick themselves daily.[/quote]

These comments don’t ever make much sense to me.

I just read an article about a guy who graduated from Grove City College in Pittsburgh.  76% acceptance rate…so not the same but close.

He founded a robotics company like 10 years ago that finally is doing well and he hit a $1BN valuation.

He commented how hard it was to raise capital in the early years and if he had come out of CMU he has no doubt he would have raised it five years earlier and would probably be at a higher valuation today.

He barely hires kids out of Grove City but hires lots out of CMU…and Pitt to some extent.

So on the one hand it proves that correct it is the person and their drive that creates the success…but on the other, that very same person admits how he would have benefited if he had attended CMU instead.

This guy wouldn’t advise someone to attend Grove City over these other schools…even though that’s where he attended.[/quote]

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