<p>Buffett was at Wharton before he transferred to the University of Nebraska. Why did he transfer? Clearly he was extremely smart; he could have done all the things he did whether he graduated from Wharton or the state school that he did graduate from. Some people on this thread would sneer at Buffett’s decision to do what he did, but he knew that fit, above all, was what mattered to him. He wanted to be closer to home and that was that. He knew that whether he was at Penn or the University of Nebraska, he was still Warren Buffett, a genius. Where he ultimately got his degree did not change that fact. The degree does not make the man. Steve jobs went to Reed (a great school, but one that people on this board would sneer at) and look at what he achieved. </p>
<p>Heraclitus put it better than I ever could: </p>
<p>A man’s character is his fate. </p>
<p>Simply, this means: wherever you go to school, it is your character and not the school you attend that shall make the difference between whether you succeed or not.</p>
<p>I do not mean to say that you should not strive for all you can be, but simply that if you have a setback in your life, you can still overcome it to achieve great things. Boarding school is not the be all end all.</p>