wakephan09
fuck duke
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You're saying if Wake cost $5-10K less than Harvard maybe 10% instead of 1% would choose Wake? I don't think that's the case at all.
This is an interesting question: if wake's reputation stayed the same, how much lower would the price have to be to have someone forgo an offer from somewhere like Harvard?I wasn't, but I might be convinced to argue that. I'm saying basically none choose Wake with costs being about the same.
(Again I think Harvard is a poor example bc it's just so far ahead of everyone else in reputation and money. Plenty to criticize, though that's the topic for another thread)
The way I see it, brand and reputation mean too much to discount the advantages you'd get from going to a place like HPY (if money is not an issue). This primarily goes for people after the most elite jobs and grad schools, but a mediocre Harvard graduate will still get more looks then a top 10% student at Carolina or a top 1% student at App. You can still do it, but you're going to need to be spectacular. For the rest of us, going for the rest of the jobs, that distinction matters less.
Personally, I try to think of reputation separately from something like (the outcome of a school's) "rigor" because one gets you into grad school or a job and the other partially determines how you'll perform there.