Varsity Blues wrote:
The paper did NOT compare kids who didn't go to college versus kids who went to Harvard. It analyzed exclusively kids who WENT to college and concluded that the cache of the degree was not correlated to earnings. ... Again, your original post that wrongly claimed that a kid who turns down, say Harvard, to go work, has the same earning potential as the Harvard kid. That statement is FALSE.
Umm, yeah. That's, umm, EXACTLY (to use ALL CAPS) what was said in the first place?
if your child is smart enough to get into an elite college, but chose not to go, he or she will still end up making approximately the same as a similarly qualified applicant who did go to an elite college.
E.g., smart enough for Yale, but choose Okie State.
Where was "to go work" said?