<p>I agree with galoisien that ultimately, it’s the individual not the school when it comes to financial success, but I’m not so sure about the acquisition of tastes developed out of collective intellectual and social consciousness (the collectivity of this consciousness, or norms, do much to the development of people immersed in them).</p>
<p>To toneranger, I’m not familiar with Geico commercials and how they relate to state schools… care to explain? By “state schools,” I meant the non-elite ones like Illinois State. Sorry for the confusion. I was careful to mention “non-elite schools” (because a lot of state schools are elite); however, when I used “state schools” (once in my post), I was referring to a specific incident where I compared Northwestern and Illinois State University women.</p>