<p>The school you go to matters, but usually not that much and not in the ways people think. You make connections at school . . . and some schools are truly superior in some programs. The mistake people make with the Ivys is believing that they are superior to every other college in every single program. Well, they aren’t. And even in the ones where they are superior, in most cases you can still “make it” in life just as well or almost as well after going to some other school.</p>
<p>I’m dubious of the whole concept of a “dream school.” Going to college should be a means to an end (to get a job or get grounded in the classics or whatever) . . . not the end in and of itself.</p>