Absolutely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36644126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36644126 You also need to be careful of averages when people lik

Absolutely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36644126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36644126 You also need to be careful of averages when people like Gates and Zuckerberg drop out of Harvard - the opposite skew! https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-match-school-and-student-rank https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-match-school-and-studen... links to a study showing it might not be worth it: An oft-cited paper, Dale and Krueger, appears to find that, controlling for applicant characteristics, people who attend more selective college don’t earn more money later in life.