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Graduates of elite colleges DO make more money over time than their counterparts at less elite schools. By itself, this statistic would lead you to believe that it was the college that gave them the earnings boost. But if you control for the colleges students apply to and were accepted to, the differences in compensation disappear. For example, a student who attends Penn State, but who also had applied and been accepted to the more prestigious University of Pennsylvania earns as much over time, on average, as a student who attended U Penn. [/quote]

Nobody that gets into Penn ends up at Penn State. These absurd hypotheticals you anti-elite folks try to pitch are absurd.  :roll: [/quote]

Not Penn State, but my sister got into U of Penn and ended up going to one of our state colleges because she wanted to be a nurse and my parents said no way they would pay for a Penn degree for a nursing career.  She's done very well, ultimately got a masters in nursing and is now managing all training for the nursing staff for a large hospital while also teaching a nursing program.  U of Penn would have given her a lot of debt but likely not impacted her career.  Going to the affordable in-state college was a good choice.

I have an intern right now who turned down Yale to go to U. of Alabama for free.  He's great and I'm sure will have a great career.

There are a lot of reasons people would choose a public university over an Ivy but for the most part it will come down to the cost. [/quote]

Too bad about your sister! University of Pennsylvania has the #1 nursing program in the country!  I think it well could have impacted her career - you can't know one way or the other.  [/quote]

Hey - congrats - you were trying to sound like an asshole and you succeeded. Way to go schmuck...

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LOL.  My sister now hires and trains nurses.  She should know if any ivy degree matters in her field. It doesn't if you want to work in patient care.  Maybe if you want to move into policy and administration?  But a state U program didn't hurt her ability to get into the masters' program she wanted to go to.  She's gotten any job she's wanted.  A floor nurse isn't going to be paid more because she went to Penn.  That's now how it works.  If we were low-income and it was free, then sure, she'd have gone there but no way is any marginal, possible benefit worth the debt that it would have required.  [/quote]

Nursing is one of the few fields that where you got a degree doesn't matter.  Many of the elite schools don't have a school of nursing and if they do, they draw from a  completely different applicant pool and tend not to take classes with the other schools.  I would agree it doesn't make sense to go to an elite school to be a nurse., but rightly or wrongly, nursing has never been a high prestige or lucrative career.[/quote]

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