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It is much easier these days to interview for top jobs that would have excluded you 20 years ago, because you went to the wrong schools.

If you're a smart and ambitious student, don't let your alma mater be the deciding factor in your life. It is true, you may have to work much harder than those that can coast on their HYPS-pedigree, but as the saying goes: You can't keep a good man down.

The anxiety of not getting accepted into a top school is mostly a juvenile phenomena.




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