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<p>I have the article right here. “Payscale excluded survey respondents who reported having advanced degrees, including MBAs, MDs and JDs.” </p>
<p>In addition, the median mid-career salary for Dartmouth in the survey wasn’t $300,000, but rather $134,000. Maybe, overall the median salary for all Dartmouth alums (including the ones that went to grad school was $300K); however, I haven’t seen any stats on that and it wasn’t what was being discussed here. Even the 75th %ile mid-career salary in the survey at Dartmouth was $234,000. It wasn’t until the 90th %ile that Dartmouth mid-career salary was $321,000, second to Yale at that level at $326,000.</p>
<p>When I was applying to schools, I thought that Duke was considered slightly better than the mid-Ivies (Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown), but below Harvard, Yale, Princeton. It still didn’t make me want to go to Duke over Dartmouth, though. I guess I was very little driven by rankings compared to many that seem all consumed on them on here. Maybe, things have changed, but would still think the differences in reputation and selectivity are insignificant enough in comparison to tangible differences between the schools to be deciding in any other way besides fit seems baseless.</p>