I finished 4th in my senior HS class, I got a 2310 on my SAT's, played sports, did debate and the academix team....and I got waitlisted at 3 Ivy League schools because "This year marks a record breaking amount of applicants at our school and we deeply regret not being able to accept you" and all that mumbo-jumbo. I dealt with it, or so I thought. I'm scheduled to start at Lafayette this fall, where one of my parents works. Being such a good student, tuition remission from parental employment scholarship money is keeping me from having to spend pretty much any money to go to school. I've been comforting myself in the fact that while I didn't get into an Ivy league, I'm not going to come out of college with loans, and I can still make the best of my intended major (bioengineering) being that lafayette is a great engineering school. However, an article in the Wallstreet Journal has really thrown me for a loop. It seems that no matter how hard I try in college or how well I can do a job, I can expect to, when doing the same exact job, make markedly less money than an Ivy League graduate.
http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/105499/Ivy-Leaguers'-Big-Edge-Starting-Pay
I suppose this is more of a vent than a question, but what do you all think of the idea of Ivy leagues getting these names about them that earn their graduates more money than the rest of us when I've heard that in some cases the hardest part of an ivy league college is getting in and then it's essentially like any other college. Their selectivity and elitism have sway over me/my future coworker's income? Have any of you people out there experienced this? Like the article explains that fresh out of college a rutgers student was making less money in the same job than someone from...Harvard? i believe.
http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/105499/Ivy-Leaguers'-Big-Edge-Starting-Pay
I suppose this is more of a vent than a question, but what do you all think of the idea of Ivy leagues getting these names about them that earn their graduates more money than the rest of us when I've heard that in some cases the hardest part of an ivy league college is getting in and then it's essentially like any other college. Their selectivity and elitism have sway over me/my future coworker's income? Have any of you people out there experienced this? Like the article explains that fresh out of college a rutgers student was making less money in the same job than someone from...Harvard? i believe.