I hope this isn't a duplicate, if so it bears repeating. The number of people on here that think the world is going to end because of an ivy rejection is astounding. If you are a stellar student, many APs, 2300+ SAT, etc, chances are you will be successful wherever you attend. As an anecdote, my very good friend graduated from Cornell engineering and did that for many years, at a MAJOR electronics company. Well guess where many of the new hires came from? ITT.
Please look at the articles below.."Here, however, is what was explosive: Dale and Krueger concluded that students, who were accepted into elite schools, but went to less selective institutions, earned salaries just as high as Ivy League grads. For instance, if a teenager gained entry to Harvard, but ended up attending Penn State, his or her salary prospects would be the same.
In the pair's newest study, the findings are even more amazing. Applicants, who shared similar high SAT scores with Ivy League applicants could have been rejected from the elite schools that they applied to and yet they still enjoyed similar average salaries as the graduates from elite schools. In the study, the better predictor of earnings was the average SAT scores of the most selective school a teenager applied to and not the typical scores of the institution the student attended."
http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2004/10/education-easterbrook
http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution/2011/03/01/the-ivy-league-earnings-myth
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