[KarlInOhio]

How about business and finance ?

How much of that is because of the education itself and how much because of contacts made in college and the families who send their kids to those schools?

[SeekAndFind]

How much of that is because of the education itself and how much because of contacts made in college and the families who send their kids to those schools?

So, I guess the Ivies are less about education and learning than the lifelong contacts one makes. That's probably worth the $50,000/year price tag ?? ( just asking ).

[hinckley buzzard]

As we have seen from the performance of the Ivy Leaguers ruining this country's economy, the education itself is a waste of time. It's the connections that people go to the Ivies for. Where insider families, and those who want to join them, gather to look after their own.

[Sig Sauer P220]

How much of that is because of the education itself and how much because of contacts made in college and the families who send their kids to those schools

Bingo!

[staytrue]

name-brand cachet that, along with their active alumni networks, have long provided entrée into the upper echelons of the working world.

Your question: How much of that is because of the education itself and how much because of contacts made in college and the families who send their kids to those schools?

Coming from a poor area in Ohio and going to Stanford, I can say the facilities and profs at OSU are just as good for the undergrads. I'm going to say, the name cache and friends you make have made Stanford worth 10-100 times the tuition they charged.

For example, Filo and Yang who started Yahoo met at Stanford, as did Hewlett and Packard, and Brin and Page of Google. While my friends at Stanford are not high profile like that, they are way above who you meet at a public school.

Further, the financial aid at the Ivies are usually much higher than at the publics.

I will say that maybe some of the second tier Ivies (Columbia, Smith, Swathmore, Brown, etc.) may not be worth it. But the upper tier of Cal tech, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Princeton definitely are.