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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course attending a prestige college matters in one's life outcome. UK prime ministers mostly came from Oxford or Cambridge. Many Ivy graduates/dropouts went on to become business leaders, government leaders, supreme court justices, and etc. Has there ever been a SC justice or President from Longwood? Not I am aware of. Your anecdotes don't change the overall statistics. You also can't detach the name brand from the people who attend the top schools. Statistically those are people more driven, hard working, and intelligent.

Obviously the choice of attending an average school is fine too. If you are a hardworking and intelligent person, you will be successful regardless. But there is no point of forcing your lifestyle to everyone else.  [/quote]

I hate this argument. 0.00001% of people are prime ministers or Supreme Court justices. It’s an irrelevant standard. Millions of us will be regular people with regular jobs, trying to be happy and supporting our families. What is the best preparation for [i]that[/i]? It’s not just a high SAT score.[/quote]

+1 And I think this and OP's post are both part of the same shift in thinking: Stop putting pressure on kids to become president or Sup Ct justices. It's not going to happen, for almost all of them, and then they live their lives having pursued an essentially unattainable dream and feeling as if they are letting down their parents and themselves.

You can be anything - but probably what you'll be is someone who does a job, that hopefully is something you like doing well enough and pays well enough, and that also gives you the time and resources to do the other things you like. Whatever that is - spending time with family, traveling, reading, whatever you value in life.

I think it's a much happier recipe for success, to approach college and life with this sort of reasonable, sober, but optimistic stance. Sure, if you really want to be a Sup Ct justice go for it - but talk to kids about life as most of us live it, and help guide them to making THAT life good. You don't need Harvard for that.[/quote]

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