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Similarly, Rep. Barney Frank '61, (D-Mass.), who attended the College and HLS, said his Harvard education has served him well in politics - at least at the local level...
...Hoxby tried to correct for the fact that very smart students could come out of lower-tiered schools and go on to great success--and for "late bloomers" who could become more motivated after college. By taking an "average" student, she found that going to top-level schools like Harvard will only continue to pay off--at least financially...
...every person who does it and who succeeds at that visible level there are other people who are getting great joy from being in community theater...or a ranch in Wyoming," he says...
...Harvard name] did provide some level of legitimation for taking the risk the institutions were taking," he says. "Nothing ever felt easy, but looking back on it, we were 25- or 26- year-olds looking to raise $200,000 for a pilot...
...What the Harvard name can do is provide a bit of prejudice in one way or the other," he says. " 'They come from a privileged institution and a privileged background' is the assumption. You have to build a level of trust over time...