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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you measure the quality of a college education? There are no objective measures and schools are loathe to publish them?

As to sniping at GWU, I don't see similar hate spilled on other area schools like AU that are also just as expensive.

The Ivy degree may get you in the door, but it can't keep you there. Given that admission to anybody them is a crapshoot anyway and that they educate a tiny minority of all the students that go in to higher ed in the U.S., it's realistic to have expectations of not attending them. Also, it's just as myopic to assume they produce the best and brightest, when in point of fact - and this has been stated elsewhere - they generally produce educated automatons who've been good at checking the right boxes all their life and decidedly come by and large from positions of socio-economic privilege,

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Quality of education means that it expands your world view, knowledge base, and helps you achieve the goals you want, no matter what that might be. If you want to work in international affairs and went to college to reach that goal, then yes, the quality of education you got wasn't as good as it could have been if you ended up a car rental associate. This is also why the above list is complete garbage - who cares which schools have the highest starting salaries? Not everyone wants to work in STEM and this is the wrong metric.

I also don't think that Ivies are the be all end all. But there's a lot of confusion about cost here - remember, a college can be more expensive but have a better ROI because it helps you get to your goals faster, and it would be silly for a parent to be so short sighted about college costs. And it's pretty sour grapes to say that students from Ivies got their foot in the door unfairly and won't do well at their jobs. Some might fail but past performance is a good predictor of future performance no matter how much people are bitter. [/quote]

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