Well, I'm gratified to see that my school made the public school list. What, it didn't make the party school list? This is a travesty!
A few of these schools are a mystery to me. SUNY-Albany? Who knew? And Cal-Davis, isn't that an agricultural school? What, are half their graduates going out and starting their own vineyards?
Some schools, like Syracuse, Boston College, and Georgetown, are traditional refuges of the rich and upper middle class. It's not only what you know, but who you know. No surprises there.
The University of Vermont is a traditional favorite of well-to-do New Englanders who want a bohemian-type college experience. They go there, or the uber-pricy Bennington, or Brown or Hampshire, or perhaps one of the Maine colleges. But UVM is well known in that regard.
Pace -- gahh.
An Ivy Leage diploma still matters. A friend of mine (Stanford MBA) reported to me that he was locked out of certain, exclusive Wall Street jobs becasue he didn't have an Ivy League undergraduate degree. But you know what? He got a great job anyway, and he eventually made his fortune anyway.
MIT -- my brother is an MIT engineering grad, as are his friends -- they've all done quite well. Most of them eventually moved into management, or started their own companies.
It's a shame that the smaller schools were left off of the list. I'd love to see how Amherst College grads would rank. I knew a number of kids who rejected Ivy League schools in favor of Amherst.
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