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I agree with the title wholeheartedly. However, even though I try to avoid taking a school's prestige into high regard, it is something always looming at the back of my mind. For example: I got into Pomona College, a fine academic institution, and I was wait listed at Stanford, and despite the fact that I rationalize with myself that it is the academic rigor that counts, another part of me wants to be the guy who can dazzle the nonbelievers by saying I attend a school with world renown. It isn't particularly a good mindset, I know, but I'm trying to combat it (to little avail, mind you).
EDIT: The funny thing is, I am going to have to continue schooling past undergrad for my choice of work, anyway (medicine).
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