When it comes to calculating the return on your investment, where you go to school does matter to your bank account later in life.

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"Everyone has to rethink all the old models that we believed in, the model where you go to school and then a big firm, " said McGrath, who graduated from Fordham University School of Law School in 1998, a time when law jobs were abundant.

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Your whole life they say, 'Where did you go to school?

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My second school, I got wait-listed, and my third school, I got put into - at the University of Texas, it's called the coordinated application program where you go to a satellite school for a year, and then you transfer in.

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And it's interesting, you talked about in your book an exercise that you did in school where you were asked to go through - what was it - King Lear and one other play to look for all of the references to blindness and eyes.

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If you want a tamer version of the sport, you can go to Skip Barber Racing School in Lakeville, Connecticut, where they run miniature racing cars powered by a 135hp Dodge Neon engine.

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This isn't a tracking device in the traditional sense -- while it provides location info, it doesn't retain coordinates, so you can't pop this on a vehicle to see where your kids really go after school.

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"You see families function in a normal way, where the parents go off to work, the kids go off to school, " she said.

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