Aja Frost is only a freshman in college (at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo). But she already has a pretty good handle on what it takes to be successful in life, as revealed in her post Five Things That Matter More Than Where You Go To College.
I write here often that what you do in college will be much more important than where you go. And Jay Mathews of the Washington Post has been leading that charge since 1999 when he wrote Harvard Schmarvard, and in more recent articles like this one.
None of us is saying that you shouldn't work hard or that you shouldn't care a lot about your college future. We're saying that good effort combined with good character means more than the name of any college on your degree.