<p>This report also doesn't take into account regional prestige.</p>
<p>Going to
Emory in Atlanta or Rice in Houston is just as if not more beneficial than going to Harvard if you plan to work in Atlanta or Houston respectively.</p>
<p>There are many students who come to the Ivy League without the intention of simply maximizing how much money they earn. I know we see a huge number of students go into public service or advocacy-type work which is typically rather lower paying than many other fields top college grads can find themselves.</p>
<p>It's all nonsense, the answer was already mentioned in this thread quite sometime ago-- no it doesn't matter unless that school is right for you because then it can matter. You need to be where you're going to be challenged in the right way to inspire you to be better, wherever that's going to be.</p>
<p>If you guys have ever been to the Harvard employment website... You will see the fruits and benefits of going to a top tier institution....</p>
<p>If you guys have ever worked with the Harvard OCS office (as I have), you will wonder if you're at the right institution...</p>
<p>The ivies definitely do not have a monopoly on excellence as some posters may suggest. In fact, you could probably construct a parallel non-ivy league that has the same prestige and excellence as the real ivy league.</p>
<p>Ivies:-------------Non-Ivies:
Harvard----------Stanford
Yale---------------MIT
Princeton---------Caltech</p>
<p>::Gap::::::::::::::Gap::</p>
<p>Columbia----------Duke<br>
Dartmouth--------Northwestern
Univ of Penn------Univ of Chicago
Brown-------------Wash U
Cornell------------Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>honestly i think UMich is the best choice considering it has the largest alumni base
frankly i think any decent school with a large alumni base will set you up for success ivy or not</p>
<p>I disagree that going to a school with a large alumni will set you up for success. If your school's alumni are a dime a dozen, would you go out of your way to help them? In S CA, almost every other applicant for a job graduated from UCLA or USC, assuming you also graduated from those schools, which one will you help?</p>
<p>i look at it has having some common ground. scenerio your at a job interview
Interviewer: And where did you receive your degree.
You: (for sake of argument umich) University of Michigan
Interviewer: Really me too class of '88
You: Class of '96
Interviewer: Those were a great four years werent they its such a great university
You: Yes it was despite being such a large school I did very well as well getting some great interning opportunities
Interviewer: Well having first hand experience with the University I think you will do very well, your hired</p>
<p>With a larger alumni base there is a greater chance of this happening but im also assuming your not trying to become CEO of a Fortune 500 company, just a regular starting job</p>
<p>^ lol, Are you serious?</p>