Is Harvard a magical key and door opener for high paid jobs?

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The short quick answer: What you see in movies is not reality.

The more detailed answer. Graduating with a Harvard degree does NOT open any more doors than graduating from Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT or dozens of other colleges. Here’s a good article for you to read: https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-elite-colleges-lead-to-higher-salaries-only-for-some-professions-1454295674

Diplomas from prestigious schools boost future earnings only in certain fields, while in other fields they simply don’t make a difference.

Specifically, for business and other liberal-arts majors, the prestige of the school has a major impact on future earnings expectations. But for fields like science, technology, engineering and math, it largely doesn’t matter whether students go to a prestigious, expensive school or a low-priced one—expected earnings turn out the same.