Maybe a hot take but I think school pedigree is irrelevant. I went to a top university in my country after transferring in after not getting in from highschool

Maybe a hot take but I think school pedigree is irrelevant. I went to a top university in my country after transferring in after not getting in from highschool. Turns out myself and many others would have got a lot of value from going to a less prestigious university. Ultimately most of us end up working at the same select companies. But idk I am from Canada so maybe the intensity of selection is not the same. We put far too much value in prediction of success and not enough value in actual success. Seems like the academic version of keeping up with the Jones's