Prestige/Expensive vs. Good/Cheap

sjmom2329
Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:58:12 +0000

digmedia:

I agree totally with what blossom and others have said: the people graduating from the Elites are preselected, and their success in later life has much more to do with the student than with the NAME of the college. Of course, what helps that success is the resources the college is willing/able to give the student. And some relatively lesser-known schools are willing/able to give more than you can imagine.

Well said! The only thing I’d add is that sometimes the elite-college name cuts through some red tape – I think that people end up where their talent and effort leads them, but some shortcuts are available. Sometimes the shortcut is through a program like what Digmedia describes.