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Say what you will about Ivy League grads, but the education I recieved there was second to none and the contacts made are invaluable. I find the idea that people go to those schools in order to work for someone else puzzling at best, since most Yale alums I have interacted with end up highly placed and running the companies they work for or going into academia.
I also never had to worry about financial aid at my school because the endowments are huge. If you got in, they made sure you could afford it. THat is definitely something I have seen lacking in some HBCU's, simply because they don't have as much money.
But you can't really argue with someone's perception.
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It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity.-- G.K. Chesterton
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