Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. I went to a middling state school (for reasons unrelated to my academic performance, more to do with money and family drama) and am at 11 years after starting college. I make $160k... oh, and I live in a cheap COL metro area!

I was always told I had Ivy potential, etc etc, valedictorian in high school -- and had to sort of deal with feeling like I wasn't living up to my potential. This chart makes me feel way better!

I think a lot of this has to do with the type of people that go to Ivies rather than what the Ivy does for them.

Who knows what you'd be making if you'd only gone to an ivy. My brother went to one and plans to retire at age 45. Not bad at all.

Anonymous wrote:I'm an Ivy grad who got a job on Wall St straight out of school. While I agree it was a bullshit career with zero societal contribution, that is true for the vast majority of jobs out there. So I guess I'd rather be obscenely paid in a meaningless career than poorly paid in an equally meaningless career.

+1

Also depends on geography. The Ivys are in the northeast and most grads stay in the northeast or at least in major cities. The big state schools in the Midwest have a lot of grads who stay in the Midwest. Of course they're going to make less!

Anonymous wrote:"10 years after college graduation, the typical Ivy League grad earns more than twice as much as the typical graduate of other colleges. In fact, the median Ivy graduate -- say, your solid B- Harvard student -- is making more money than the top 10 percent of graduates at other schools."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/14/this-chart-shows-why-parents-push-their-kids-so-hard-to-get-into-ivy-league-schools/

Norther group makes much.

A lot of grads come from money and move right in family "job" or get jobs form family connections.
Remember this guy?
"Michael Hess isn’t an ordinary member of Harvard Business School’s Class of 2013. After all, he’s a legacy graduate of both HBS and Harvard University and the son of John Hess whose net worth is estimated at north of $600 million. His father is chairman and CEO of the Hess Corp. which was founded by Michael’s grandfather, Leon Hess."
http://poetsandquants.com/2013/09/10/scenes-from-harvards-super-rich-mbas/

There are a lot more very very wealth people going to these schools. If a person graduates and is given a billion dollar property portfolio in New York, it really mores the numbers. It's one of the reason to go to these universities...your frat brothers father gives you a small piece of the deal but could be worth millions.