<p>The first point can also be very exciting. If you’ve always been the smartest person in the classroom, it can be wonderful to suddenly be surrounded by people who are equally smart. That’s how my kids experienced it. Number two is true. My daughter told her brother, “Get ready, because for the rest of your life, whenever you make a mistake or don’t know something, people will say, ‘And you went to Yale?’” I think there is some truth in point #3, but once you are in the work world, you’re judged more by the work you do than where you went to school.</p>