<p>cc77: Wow! Did you get the Chancellor's Scholarship?</p>
<p>An Ivy League eduction does not always guarantee (or even increase your odds) of being successful.</p>
<p>Wanted: CEO, no Ivy required
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-04-06-cover-ceos_x.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-04-06-cover-ceos_x.htm</a></p>
<p>The CEO's Path to the Top: How Times Have Changed
<a href="http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1121&CFID=8481110&CFTOKEN=10988350&jsessionid=a830df7c857e4e63657d%5B/url%5D">http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1121&CFID=8481110&CFTOKEN=10988350&jsessionid=a830df7c857e4e63657d</a></p>
<p>Who Needs Harvard?
<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2112215/%5B/url%5D">http://www.slate.com/id/2112215/</a></p>
<p>I mean investment banking. If you're in Wharton, it's pretty much a yellow brick road. A lot of ivy grads don't want to climb the corporate ladder of many of the corporations. You are in charge of your success; but the network can only help if you come from a poor background.</p>
<p>LBP: I wasn't even given an interview for the chancellor's. (I live nearby.) I did, however, win a national 40k scholarship so that is how I get everything paid for.</p>
<p>i know 2 people in investment banking, one with a NY firm, the other with a regional firm in the southeast. both make mega bucks and the southerner flies around so much putting together deals that he is literally in a different country each week. the NY guy's degree is in aeronautical engrg and the southerner's business degree is from a school i can't remember the name of in south carolina.</p>
<p>If you ask me, I think success has more to do with working hard wherever you are than it does with finding the school with the best name.</p>