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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The South is Rising - Look at the exploding application numbers and prestige.

Harvard/Yale/Princeton = Duke/Rice
Columbia = Vanderbilt
Brown/Penn/Cornell/Dartmouth =Emory

Look at avg ACT/SAT rates and application rates and you'll see the gap has closed. People are interested in better life styles and weather.[/quote]

Hahahahaha oh this is a new level of pathetic[/quote]

We’ll the numbers don’t lie. The poster is not wrong. [/quote]

What numbers? Those schools are not equivalent in any way. Vanderbilt = Columbia? Duke/Rice = HYP?! LOL.[/quote]

NP--And upon what numbers are you basing your out-loud laughter? There is essentially no difference in the quality of an education at any of the schools mentioned in this thread. Compare them on your choice of numbers available in their Common Data sets.

Regardless, what matters is not the school anyway, but the individual and what they make of the school. This was shown to be true over a decade ago by Alan Krueger and Stacy Berg-Dale......

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1871566

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If there is no difference than shouldn't all the schools be equal then? [/quote]

You should read the paper. It's very, very interesting. I can see how the way I phrased it above makes it sound like I think all schools are equal, but that's not what I mean. Sorry for the imprecise wording. What I meant is that those who apply to schools of a given level of selectivity and are turned down at all of them but accepted at a school or schools a bit less selective will not have any less opportunity for a successful career. The same is true for those who ARE accepted at more selective schools but turn them down for a less selective school, for whatever reason.

Anecdotally, my cousin's daughter turned down Hopkins and Penn to attend Catholic U. She liked the scholarship and the traditional Catholic education they offered. In four years, she earned both a bachelor's degree and a Master's in biomedical engineering, and she had a job as a researcher at NIH waiting for her upon graduation. She regrets nothing.

If you like anecdotes, I'd suggest Where You Go is not Who You'll Be, by NYT journalist Frank Bruni. If you prefer data, this website is loaded with it...

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/
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