US News-Induced Inferiority Complex!

Milkmagn
Wed, 07 May 2008 13:53:04 +0000

ElderCookies:

Saying that there is no correlation between attending a top school and success is blatantly ignorant. If you personally are amazing, then you can do great things wherever you go. If you are say a film genius (Spielberg), or computer magician (Steve Jobs) then you will most likely be fine. If you are a smart, talented person, but are not amazing a top school will guarantee a good career in many cases, and allow you to network with many truly amazing people, since they end up at those kind of schools a lot.

The bottom line is you can do great things from Cal State Long Beach, but you are going to have a much greater chance of to do them at top schools.

not true… studies have shown that there is no future income difference between kids who got into ivies but chose to attend lesser schools for personal reasons and the kids who went to ivies