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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1787322, member: 780"]
The Ivy League for most athletes is kind of a scam.

That is, what you think you are getting in many cases is not what you actually get.

A number of years ago, a Princeton professor did a study of the post-graduation careers of Ivy League and non-Ivy league athletes.

What he found was that the post-graduation careers of these Ivy League athletes was not similar to their Ivy League classmates, but instead pretty much mirrored the careers that the non-Ivy league athletes that went to State universities had.

That shouldn't surprise anyone really. The athletes are admitted using a different system, the Ivy Academic Index. (The A.I. allows them to admit students that are actually quite average).

So the brilliant non-athlete who has won science prizes and goes to Princeton and medical school becomes a top doctor makes a ton of money. But the  Ivy League athlete becomes a pharmaceutical sales rep, almost exactly what they would have been if they had gone to Penn State.

This isn't my opinion, its the PU professor's research results. Although I have some personal anecdotes that support it, like the Brown grad that works in his father's Nursery business or the Duke graduate we know who is an assistant gym teacher at a boys middle school, here.

Does an Ivy degree get some an interview or even first job. Probably. But pretty soon where you went to school makes little difference. I think its a scam.
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