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CMV:People are too obsessed with prestigious universities.

This obsession is something I don’t understand. Sure , people who graduate in Harvard will get a better starting salary than someone from an average university.But that’s only because the people who get into Harvard usually are not average people. They work hard, intelligent, or they have some family connections.

But most people seem to ignore all of those factors and are just stuck on the Idea that prestigious universities equals automatic success. 

I have witnessed people bragging about what university they got accepted into and other people congratulating them as if they have already “made” it In life.

If you post a day in the life of a Harvard student video on YouTube , you are more likely to get million views than a video discussing the man who solved Fermat Last Theorem.

In a day and age where information is available for those who care, why in the heck are people so obsessed with going to a school that probably won’t teach them something that they can’t find in a textbook?

I think people too obsessed with big college names and it’s very foolish IMO. Change my view please because I don’t understand.
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Have you heard about signaling theory in economics?

Basically, it says that education doesn't have any incentric value but only servers as a signal to future employers about your quality.

So companies don’t hire you because your skills (things you know) but because who you are (good studier, hard worker, family connections etc.) Diploma from ivy league school signals that you have good qualities that company wants and then trains you in the specific task they need. Fact that you need to work hard (or have right connections/money) to get to these schools works as filter meaning that people that are in have these qualities. Now employee doesn’t have to filter their candidates by these qualities because schools have already done that.

TL;DR: Your knowledge or skills doesn’t matter but what kind of person you are.