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

[beyphy]

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I don’t have the link to the study, but one well validated project a number of years ago compared students who chose to study at other institutions even though they had been accepted at an Ivy, with socio-economic peers who chose to study at an Ivy. In this follow-up a number of years after graduation, there was no significant difference in the lives of those two sets of students.

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<p>you’re talking about this study:</p>

<p>[The</a> Ivy League Earnings Myth - The College Solution (usnews.com)](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution/2011/03/01/the-ivy-league-earnings-myth]The”>The Ivy League Earnings Myth)</p>

<p>a good example of this is richard nixon who got accepted into harvard but couldn’t afford to attend so he had to go to whittier college (although he went to duke law.)</p>