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context: You haven't actually gone through any significant advantages in this post. How long have you been graduated from your school? >
  
  I graduated in 2021 and at the least it helped me directly with getting into a top grad school in another country.  I know amongst my friends a lot of them were able to make connections in industries they were interested in because we had professors and other school staff who directly worked in those industries (like two professors of mine worked directly with famous country music artists, so that was great for people interested in that type of stuff) or knew people that did and so they were able to get good internships or student jobs and have a head-start after graduating. >
  
  You have never worked outside of academia then? Give it a few years of real-world experience before making this judgment >
  
  These things you mentioned have no long term benefits aside from networking. The point is what you can do with it afterwards to obtain employment within the field of study. As far as I'm aware everything you mentioned is obtainable at most schools. So you really didn't show your point. In what way are they more beneficial? In what way do they provide something different? Is it really worth the cost difference? For everyone? >
  
  Well I think the "cost difference" is one thing right off the bat that is important to consider because, depending on the school, the cost difference actually is not as big as people may think in the first place.  Like I said in the post, more financial aid tends to be available than I think most people realize, and in my case it actually ended up costing probably about the same amount for me to go to the school(s) I went to as it would've cost if I went to a state-school.
  As for being able to obtain employment, it's like what I said in another reply here, a lot of professors and other staff at the school were directly connected with people in various industries and therefore were great at pointing students in directions they should go or being references, stuff like that.
  Overall, although it's still important to take a look at everything for one's own situation, my main point of frusturating is when people automatically throw "name brand" schools out of their selections just for the fact that they assume there is nothing noteworthy about going to one. >
  
  Students who are accepted to ivy league colleges but attend other schools are just as successful as those who graduate from the Ivy League school. These schools' selection process predicts success, the education they provide doesn't seem to advantage the students.
  This finding should not be a surprise. Basically these schools are selecting from the top 5 students from every highschool across the country, and they have the luxury to reject the vast majority of these applicants. You have to be a very successful person by the age of 18 to get into these schools, and you will probably be successful regardless of what school you go to. >
  
  You just graduated. You dont know what you are talking about.