Why do people from ivy league & stanford/duke/MIT make more money?

[YaleGradandDad]

<p>Per the Ivy League Earnings Myth article cited above:</p>

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In the study, the better predictor of earnings was the average SAT scores of the most selective school a teenager applied to and not the typical scores of the institution the student attended.

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<p>No wonder the top 20 schools have an application explosion - you just need to apply to raise your income :).</p>