<p>The MSU person’s rant is pretty moronic. People at second tier schools always argue that in “the real world” it doesn’t matter and that their college won’t affect their real-life success. </p>
<p>Sorry to break it to you, MSU person, but people at top schools do better in life. Wharton graduates 500-600 undergrads a year. Look at the list of alumni: it’s freaking ridiculous. Harvard only graduates 1500 students a year. MSU graduates 9000. So MSU graduates 18 times as many undergrads as Wharton and 6 times as many as Harvard. And yet there are many prominent Harvardians and Whartonites for every prominent MSU grad. I’d argue that the difference between the schools becomes GREATER in the real world when the books go away and the studying ends.</p>