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An Ivy League education will open doors for the rest of your life. Damn right it’s worth it.

This may be true, certainly for gov't and quasi-gov't positions like Fannie Mae, and prestigious financial insitutions ... whatever remains of them after the ongoing shake-out.

But at some point I wonder if private employers will start to recognize that Ivy grads are not as good hires as someone from, say, Grove City College or Georgia State.

Someone here on FR posted once that he was already seeing employers shy away from hiring Ivy grads, who tended to hold themselves in too high esteem and to underperform.

[SeekAndFind]

But at some point I wonder if private employers will start to recognize that Ivy grads are not as good hires as someone from, say, Grove City College or Georgia State.

I know something about Grove City College since I have friends and relatives enrolled there.

Some interesting info :

* Last year, 150 companies visited their campus (it's a small school with just 2,500 students) to hire their graduates.

* Over 90% of their graduates found jobs within 4 months of graduation.

* The school's students ranks second among all colleges surveyed by the ISI in terms of knowledge of civics and economics ( above most Ivies and second only to Harvard).

* Approximately 1 in 6 of the graduates for the past ten years own their own businesses (and small business are the ones that employ 80% of our workforce ).

* The school's tuition plus board and lodging is competitive with public universities ( recently $18,000 for board and lodging and tuition ). All freshmen students are given a laptop and color printer which is their's for free after graduation.