People care too much about their undergraduate institutions
I'll confess it: I am chronically online. Nonetheless, I've seen several a post in my day where grown-ass adults feel the need to shit on public colleges and universities in favor of other schools (often ones that they did not attend). I don't get it. Sure, the plural of anecdote isn't data, but it's weird how people shill for these billion dollar entities to which they often either owe thousands (can you tell this is an American perspective?) or never even attended. Disparities in education "quality" are often quite overblown and reflective of biased outcomes (the rich people who disproportionately attend high ranking schools tend to stay rich). In actuality, accreditation policies ensure that departments teach roughly the same content and often use the same textbooks. Does anyone remember the Varsity Blues scandal? Those kids did well enough after they got in; it would seem like the biggest challenge offered by top American schools is simply being admitted. Anyhoo, adieu. If you want to see what I mean, go to the sub for your state's premier school and ask if you should attend that school for half price or some random bottom half school (in the same state) or any school in West Virginia, and you will see comments urging you take on thousands in debt to go to the school that paid U.S. News for a high ranking. Ciao.