re: Some colleges will charge up to $95,000 this year...

It matters where you studied undergrad. All you have to do is look at employment reports of MIT, Harvard, Stanford vs LSU, Ole Miss, ULL. 1st year out of school salary is over 2x for first set compared to 2nd set. By mid career, it's much higher. My brother works for a large oil company and was told by coworkers they had to convince their boss to let in a petroleum engineer grad from LSU as they seldom do it. They pretty much only accept UT and A&M. This is one of the best paying oil companies with a huge bonus. I personally went to an Ivy on scholarship. I was one of 300 applicants for the role I applied to and got it. I was solely narrowed from 300 to final 2 they said for the name of my school. The other guy that's my coworker in my role went to a top 10 university. Tip top paying job with high equity.

I know a petroleum engineer from ULL. He said not one large operator came on campus in 2016 in downturn. He busted his arse for 4 years to try to get on with an operator and could never make it despite a 3.5 GPA, eventually settled for refinery on site job. 3.5 in PETE is really good even if ULL. He struggled as with his classmates bc the oil operators were taking T A&M, UT, etc.

Just like if you're the same exact college football player but you went to LSU, UGA, or Bama compared to McNeese St, you're much more likely to get drafted higher by going to top SEC football schools.

Are there plenty cases of an LSU grad working with a UT grad? Yes, there are. In general as a mass, it does matter. Just like what star recruit you are does matter. People who think it doesn't always cherry pick a specific case, but the data definitely suggests otherwise whether what star recruit you are or what undergrad you went to by career earnings from employment reports.

All you have to do is look at career employment reports by school. The school I went to makes 2x what LSU employment reports for 1st year out of school. So yes it does matter in general. Anyone, which is a large majority of the population bc majority doesn't get into those schools, who doesn't think so is ignoring obvious data and is just salty. Can it be overcome? Obviously, but we're talking large masses of people and general trends.