Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries Only. This is episode 379. I'm your host Thomas Smith.

Thank you so much for joining me. So today we're going to be talking about college and

whether your choice of college makes any difference in your life. This came up because of a

dear old dad's episode actually. Somewhat recent one we were talking about college and should we

send our kids to college? How much should we worry about it? All that stuff. And Tom claimed that

study showed which college you go to doesn't really make a difference. There's some more nuance there

and my guest will get into it. But that launched my guest today, Dr. Elizabeth Ditch, who has a

PhD in organizational psychology on a bit of a massive research deep dive as she kind of wondered

if that was true. She wanted to check the available studies and kind of see what the state of the

science was. So does college selection make a big difference in your job and your life? That sort

of thing. Apparently Beth Ditch is a little bit like me and that once she goes in on something,

goes a million percent. And so this is actually a two-parter. Beth did so much research.

She had tons of studies to go through that this and it actually divides somewhat neatly more than

I would have thought into a two-parter. And it was she did a ton of work and we recorded for over

two hours. So there's plenty to go. I would actually worry about giving this to you and any less

than two parts because it's impossible to retain that much information. So part one is going to be

about that original claim. Oh, it makes no difference which school you go to. And as with a lot of

this stuff, it turns out that's kind of based on like one study that's old and that's cited,

you know, in pretty much all this. And you know, there's some complications there. Will it hold up?

Will it not? I'm going to leave you in suspense. You'll take us through it. But that's going to be

kind of the first part. And then part two goes more into what Beth found subsequently. So like

newer stuff, slightly different questions being answered. So this two-part series will contain

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