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Lisa Maniaci's avatar

My husband and I both went to a SUNY school after being rejected by our first choices. The fact that we weren't strapped with crippling debt (we both had loans but paid them off in 10 years instead of decades), made it easier for us to have choices about where to live, jobs, furthering our education, etc. My husband wound up getting certified as a Financial Analyst through the Wharton School, and I got my Masters at Rutgers. At one point early in my husband's career he lead a mentorship program at his company. One of his mentees was a kid who had just graduated from Harvard. He was elitist, had no work ethic and pushed back on all of the requirements needed to move on to the next milestone. After several months and lots of performance meetings, the firm let him go. It doesn't matter where you get your degree. If you don't have a desire to earn your job, you wind up without one.

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Bill Curphey's avatar

I was rejected by THE Ohio State Law School even though I received my undergraduate degree there. Cleveland State University Law School offered a partial scholarship so I went there, eventually met an entrepreneur/businessman who set me up in practice in 3 states (Ohio, Georgia and Florida where I now live) and also started an internet company with the man in the internet's infancy that has provided me a life of travel and leisure.

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