this advice is applicable for .02% of the population. For the vast majority of people (even in top n-schools) there is value that isn’t just signaling. We can debate the roi on that all day, but the generalized advice is dangerous, take it from a college dropout.https://twitter.com/DoveyWan/status/1213325247320969218 …
strongly disagree. Top institutions provide obscene value outside of signaling at what is often a dramatically lower price.