Clearly the right major from an Ivy usually trumps most big State universities even your "public" Ivy. A student-athlete at an Ivy means a lot more than a student-athlete at State U- sorry. Every job recruiter knows that the admissions standards for an athlete at great state U is so much lower than any Ivy. And if they keep interviewing football and basketball players from those schools the value of the student-athlete degree from XZY university willcontinue to fall. Especially the big time schools that strongly encourage their athletes to only have "soft" majors. If you are an athlete in a sport with no future out of college, are smart, and can afford it or get enough aid, you would be foolish not to go Ivy- for real... | 
