Also, top school names only matter when starting your career... At some point you have to produce in your career. I agree with this 100%. But, your school name

Also, top school names only matter when starting your career... At some point you have to produce in your career. I agree with this 100%. But, your school name influences your first job, and your early career is what usually, obviously not always, influences the rest of your career/life. If I didn't do well on my SATs and got into a local state school, no matter how hard I work for $35K at a $500K nonprofit I'm likely never getting past the first screens from DE Shaw, Renaissance, etc.; again, there are exceptions, like a friend who went to a state school, then Ivy grad, and ended up at a FAANG; or a guy I know who went to community college, got a job at a bank, then through a series of mergers outside his control he ended up C-suite level at one of the largest asset managers. But I don't think that's the norm by any means.