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[quote=Anonymous]No one gets lower than a "B" at Harvard. Professors who assign grades lower than Bs soon find that students refuse to take their classes and their employment is terminated. Sit in on their lower division courses and you'll find they are no more difficult than A.P. high school courses.

There was a time when Ivy Leaguers seemed to be well read in the classics and the historiography of wide variety of topics, but this is no longer the case. It's been a long time since they've graduated the likes of Oliver Wendell Holmes or Theodore Roosevelt.

Everyone knows of high school valedictorians being rejected by their dream schools and everyone knows a George W. Bush who graduated from both Yale and Harvard.

The overflow of those valedictorians who weren't accepted to their dream schools haven't died, they've just gone to different universities. In the distant past when few Americans graduated from college and the ol' boy network was firmly entrenched where an individual went to college was far more important than it is today. That system and its inertia lasted until the very recent past, but for millennials this system has passed. The corporate demand for talent is simply far too great for Fortune 500 Companies to limit their job recruitment searches to about twenty colleges any longer.

Teach your children well.  Encourage them work hard and to be serious students in acquiring knowledge. Develop a strong work ethic and respect the rights of others. Attend a good college where they are welcomed and where they can envision themselves being proud supportive alumni one day.

Sure there was a time when Wall Street was an Ivy League enclave, but in the electronic age what was exclusively done on Wall Street is now done on every street in America. Ivy League grads aren't going away, but for the milennials[/quote]

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