Tiger Moms and Dragon Dads strive to place their kids in “top schools.” How much does your alma mater’s rank matter? Research is oddly mixed.75 The consensus point: where you study is less important than what you study. As some early researchers said, “While sending your child to Harvard appears to be a good investment, sending him to your local state university to major in Engineering, to take lots of math, and preferably to attain a high GPA, is an even better investment.”
