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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The parents who blew their wad on ED to Tulane with a 3.3/1260/27 will be the ones with regrets when their kid ends up [b]at the same grad/law/business school[/b] as your kid from Cheaperthan U and you're still sitting on a fat pile.[/quote]

I hate this analogy...so everyone, let's stop using it.  Grad school is often a complete waste of money and only 35% of college graduates pursue it.

Let's stick to the better script...which is plenty of people achieve from any school.[/quote]

First of all, nerd, 35% is a lot. But OK, how about a different analogy? The OP's kid graduates from their cheap school and ends up working in a cubicle next to one of those average stat kids whose parents bought their way into Tulane ED. Who's going to have regret then?

I worked alongside a Vandy grad at my first job out of a very average university. He mentioned it at least once a day just like the guy in The Office would bring up Cornell. My response was always the same: "We work the same job at the same company."[/quote]

I doubt that made him regret attending Vandy though. [/quote]

His old man might have regretted dropping 140 G's on it (roughly the four-year COA back then) if he'd known I paid next to nothing for a lower-ranked school and ended up at the same place as his kid.[/quote]

So...should the Vandy grads that ended up working at KKR and Goldman and equivalent get to feel absolutely superior to you and other "average state school" grads that were never even remotely considered for an interview?

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Vandy doesn't have a huge presence on The Street. It might be more than PP's "average state school," whatever that was, but it's not a known feeder like Penn, Cornell, Williams, Bucknell, Middlebury, and the like.[/quote]

OK...you are kind of missing the point.  Replace The Street with Bain Consulting.

I just don't understand why people flex the equivalent of "I went to average state U and have average professional job and I love to rag on the Vandy person that also has average professional job"...yet rightfully so, nobody thinks it's cool for the Vandy grad at Bain to feel superior to the average state U kid that couldn't even get an interview to save their life.[/quote]

I’ve worked at BCG and went to a small private liberal arts college in the Midwest that you have never heard of.  I think the point is that very rarely is there only one way to get where you want to go.[/quote]

Everyone has their dumb anecdote about how one kid who went to a no-name school did really well but ffs this is not the typical or expected outcome.[/quote]

You do realize that it's not a rare occurrence for a smart, hard working student to go to a state school (or no-name school) - kick butt - and then succeed in life, right along side others from private schools.....right? [/quote]

It is a rare occurrence for a smart, hardworking state student with no family connections to end up at elite employers in a client-facing role (Goldman has thousands of employees…they aren’t all investment bankers or traders or quants).

The complaint is it’s always fine for the state U person to brag that the Harvard kid ended up at the same place…but I guess it’s never cool to rag on the opposite.[/quote]

There’s a decent set of state universities where it actually isn’t rare at all.[/quote]

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