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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone figured out the veracity of this data? It sounds like the website is really just one guy and I didn't see anything about sample size or whether he got a fair distribution of graduates.[/quote]

The reason people don't want to believe this, on DCUM, is

A. Most of them have no affiliation or connection to ivies in any way
B. They are living in a fantasy land about what ivies are - all rich kids and kids of senators and crap like that
C. All they know about the ivies are things they've seen in movies or read on this stupid board

Do you realize that thousands and thousands of kids go to ivies every year? I have both an undergrad and grad degree from ivy league schools. There are TONS of stupid kids in the ivy league. And no, they are not all rich. Admissions committees make all kinds of errors and weigh all kinds of factors in admissions. A girl I sat next to in cognitive psychology could barely talk (I am not kidding) - probably had severe mental health problems. The girl on the other side of me in the same class was a blonde ditsy airhead. I know that sounds like an exaggeration but I swear it's not. There is not a deep enough bench of ultra rich families and "senators" (lmao) to fill ivy league classes. Oh, and by the way, like half the majors at the schools have no career path whatsoever. Did you really think a Womens and Sexuality Studies major from Harvard is going out and making bank unlike the poor unfortunate Womens and Sexuality Studies majors at UMD? LOL. But then if you look at fields where knowledge and skills actually matter, like engineering, the salary differential is almost zero between any of the top 100 schools. So it should not be at all surprising that ivy league grads don't make significantly more than other grads. And it's NOT because they are from rich families! Ha. Hilarious delusions [/quote]

Exactly. Compensation at most companies and organizations are tiered by experience on the job. They are set by HR and reviewed by legal. They don't pay you more because your college cost more, or because you have bigger loans, or because USNWR said your school is better than his school, or because your SAT score was higher 5 years ago. I doesn't work that way. There may be a few companies who want that ivy resume on their bio page (and they tend to be terrible snobby places to work), and so you may have a bit of a leg up in the initial interview process at some places, but that's it. The other place it sometimes helps is when you are at the C suite level and the company again wants that ivy bio to show off to investors. That's not a lot of people, and it is actually a small percentage execs anyway. And every college and fraternity and sorority has a network for getting jobs, and if you have a personal network, that works for you wherever you go.[/quote]

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