<p>i dont doubt it… I think that the WSJ rankings say a lot about this. Harvard is ranked first… by far… yet I doubt that the Harvard degree adds that much more value to a person’s resume than Princeton does. The discrepancy certainly comes from the fact that more people at Harvard are prob. aiming for the top professional schools that are included in the rankings than the kids at Princeton. Therefore, Harvard’s advantage is merely due to its student body’s behavior, not the actual education they got. I think that, for most schools, its success and character are derived from the kids they end up admitting. I think that any difference in the impact that a Harvard/Yale/MIT/Stanford/Chicago/CalTech education has on someone’s career success, as opposed to some other school on the list, would prove to be statistically insignificant.</p>