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There are a few really specific situations where I would advise you to only attempt if armed with the most insufferably prestigious degrees possible (if you wan

There are a few really specific situations where I would advise you to only attempt if armed with the most insufferably prestigious degrees possible (if you wanted to be a humanities professor at Oxford, for example), but for most industries there are plenty of ways in. Practicing medicine? Definitely can do that without the Ivy-tier prestige degrees. You can probably call up some department at your school and get actual stats for what schools the pre-meds go to. The prestige racket is real but it's not everything, it just wants you to think it is. Hope you can get away from the grueling college app process and let the wind blow those clouds off your sunrise a little. There's gonna come a day when you look over at your work colleague or close personal friend and realize you don't know where they went to school and you don't care enough to ask.

HDMI_Cable 5y ago
> The prestige racket is real but it's not everything, it just wants you to think it is. Hope you can get away from the grueling college app process and let the wind blow those clouds off your sunrise a little. There's gonna come a day when you look over at your work colleague or close personal friend and realize you don't know where they went to school and you don't care enough to ask. I've just finished, thanks. The more I think about it, the more I feel like you're right. All of this worrying about College applications and "presitgious" universities seems like a ploy to make kids more stressed. Ultimately, I'm simply happy at getting in, so worrying about the 5% edge case where the degree matters is pretty futile.
- temp234 5y ago
  You have a good attitude. Prestige colleges are a lot of things, including brands, and it's in their interest to have everyone develop a tender-age psychological sore spot over whether they're worthy of the brand. Not the other way around, they don't want us wondering whether the prestige college system is worthy of us. We only win when enough of us decide not to play.

HDMI_Cable 5y ago

> The prestige racket is real but it's not everything, it just wants you to think it is. Hope you can get away from the grueling college app process and let the wind blow those clouds off your sunrise a little. There's gonna come a day when you look over at your work colleague or close personal friend and realize you don't know where they went to school and you don't care enough to ask. I've just finished, thanks. The more I think about it, the more I feel like you're right. All of this worrying about College applications and "presitgious" universities seems like a ploy to make kids more stressed. Ultimately, I'm simply happy at getting in, so worrying about the 5% edge case where the degree matters is pretty futile.

temp234 5y ago
You have a good attitude. Prestige colleges are a lot of things, including brands, and it's in their interest to have everyone develop a tender-age psychological sore spot over whether they're worthy of the brand. Not the other way around, they don't want us wondering whether the prestige college system is worthy of us. We only win when enough of us decide not to play.