Better to succeed at a lesser known college than suffer at an Ivy?

[baktrax]

The reasoning was that at a smaller college or cc, the graduation rates are higher since the pressure is not as intense as it might be somewhere “better”, and essentially getting a degree at a lower ranked school trumps going to a highly ranked one and dropping out.

Well, I mean, yes, a college degree at a lower-ranked school is better than no college degree at all, but there’s no reason to assume that a student will drop out just because they go to a highly ranked school.