Re: MIAC trying to force out St Thomas
Originally Posted by
GreenfieldBison
My opinion is very colored by my twenty plus years in the alternative investment space. A $200k investment in education is not even a single year bonus for a relatively junior investment professional in this realm. If you have what it takes to get to the Ivies or a Stanford or U of C, etc. and you are willing to put in the hours and live the life of one of these types then that education investment is just noise relative to your total financial landscape.
If indeed you land yourself at an Ivy for an undergrad or grad experience you can bet your bottom dollar that the value of the connections alone will far eclipse the cost of attendance unless you become mentally ill or criminally inclined in the interim. Bank that.
Pfft.
Majoring in what?
People who are bright and put in 80 hours a week are usually very successful regardless of where they went to school.
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