[applecrazy]

Yep, this is true. Graduating HS senior here, and people don't seem to look past prestige.

Most of us are aware that Harvard/Stanford isn't the end-all, but still chase those institutions anyways.

[akhilcacharya]

The thing that still bothers me is the cognitive dissonance of being told by people orders of magnitude smarter than me that institution doesn’t matter. Yeah, if it didn’t you wouldn’t have gone to a HYPSM or out of state public ivy.