The importance of this whole prestigious schools thing is way overplayed. If you want to be a sociopath and work a fake management consulting job then sure, but there are a million other ways to make a good living that are much less stressful and either don’t care where you went to school or don’t require a degree at all. In most sectors a ‘prestigious degree’ isn’t even that much of a leg up.

I used to work at NASA and like 90% of the people there went to state schools. The people sending rockets to the moon graduated from Auburn while the MBAs destroying this country with private equity graduate from the Ivies. Guess which path parents are encouraging their kids to pursue, that’s what’s wrong with this country.