Stories of successful people who didn’t go to top school or vice versa?

I live in a upper middle class or rich neighborhood, depending on your perspective. MANY of the wealthy homeowners here went to local colleges, ones that people on a2c would scoff at.

plenty of people. these are a few incoming students at yale's md / phd program. many of them attended non-ivy league schools. the poster herself attended a non t200 state school and still got into many fantastic med schools (nyu, cornell, yale, all with full tuition scholarships)

Look at the list of the Fortune 500 CEO's and where they went to school. For the opposite, tens of thousands of students graduate from T20's every year - how many do you hear about?

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, went to Auburn.

Joe Biden went to the University of Delaware

walmarts ceo went to arkansas and buffet went to nebraska

• Mark Cuban- Indiana

• Bob Chapek, Former CEO of Disney- Michigan State

• David Filo (Billionaire) - Tulane, though did attend Stanford post grad

• Founder of Dell, Michael Dell- Texas

School did not define these people, their work ethic did. Stop correlating the school with success.

Andy Bernard from The Office

remind me in 4 years

Im not sure what you mean by "successful people"

In a more realistic light than a CEO'S story, I started off at a community college. My mother is disabled and my father became homeless shortly after I started CC.

That was in 2013, it took me six years to complete undergrad with a barebones 3.0, but since then, I've worked for the State of Missouri and the State of Kansas. I currently have a research internship for the feds in DC, where I've been assigned to assist in the research and development of federal policy pertaining to students and mental health.

I did attend UC Davis as a transfer student, but I had no connections to the internship I have now. I simply applied like everyone else and hoped for the best. At the time I applied to the internship, I was attending Wichita State in Kansas in an education program for a bit, so on the application, I was listed as attending Wichita State.

I applied to a different program soon after, and now I'm an incoming School Psychology graduate student at Tufts, but I had no connections before applying.

Please remember that everyone is always a work in progress! Sucess stories only show one snippet of someone's life, and I can only tell you a bit of mine and that I'm doing a bit better than I was in year's past, the media can be very misleading, we are always growing, and so are you :)

Everything will be okay, I wish you the best!

U. of Maryland: Sergey Brin

Syracuse: Jim Morris (Pixar President)

U. of Texas-Austin: Michael Young (2017 Nobel, Medicine) and James Allison (2018 Nobel, Medicine)

U. of Minnesota-Duluth: Brian Kobilka (2012 Nobel, Chemistry)

U. of Arizona: Brian Schmidt (2011 Nobel, Physics)

U. of California-Davis: Charles Rice (2020 Nobel, Medicine)

Look up the most successful people in the world-- many of them didn't go to top-tier schools, whether it be because they dropped out, went elsewhere, or didn't go to college at all.

Its impossible for people from lower ranked schools to be successful. Only people from T20’s succeed in life.

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Its a joke people, why tf am i getting downvoted.

Jack Dorsey went to Missouri S&T, but he ended up transferring to NYU 2 years after. So maybe just Jack and not Dorsey.

Steve Jobs went to Reed College in Oregon before dropping out.

Im at an Ivy and many many people here including myself are depressed Af. If that helps lol