College prestige importance or lack thereof for various majors, career paths, and graduate / professional schools

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@Data10

Each post of this thread does not need to specifically mention all of the 10+ topics of the original post. Instead sometimes there are series of posts that primarily discusses only one of the topics.

And a discussion of the importance of college prestige in engineering is perfectly fine. But the thread turned into a discussion about how strong the Ivies (and their peers) are in engineering. That’s not the topic of this thread.