The Nashville Symphony

[Mary Ann]

Going to an Ivy league school opens up employment at some places that are impressed with the fact that the person went to that school.
In my line of work, the school I went to (NMSU) was impressive for the graduates whose concentration was electrical power. Nobody but the utilities care about that, but the utilities care a lot. I assume it's the same with the Ivy League schools, which of course are appealing to an entirely different set of employers.

[bloke]

Going to an Ivy league school opens up employment at some places that are impressed with the fact that the person went to that school.

this^

I'm also pleased that my whiz kid granddaughter is looking at a math degree from a prestigious school as a bachelor's degree, rather than spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a music conservatory (or university equivalent of a music conservatory to perfect a craft in a dying industry). The ideal time to have entered the classical music performance industry was around 1970 or so. It exploded around that time and then (along with recordings actually being bought for real money, rather than being downloaded for a few cents) - over the decades - it fizzled (particularly as the blue haired ladies died off, and as the sophistication of American culture continued to diminish). I would equate that era to the 1950s and the 1980s dixieland revival eras:
Simply - for a few years, and out of style music genre suddenly became In style again and became a semi craze.
Further, music conservatory tuition rates used to be more in line with reasonableness - prior to the federal government just making straight loans to emerging adults (now, without banks even being involved anymore - whereby the fed and the government simply print an endlessly borrow fake money to either give away or loan). If easy loans are out there for anything in particular (regardless of how unwise the pursuit) people are going to borrow that money, as the overwhelming majority of people (certainly countless thousands of people who are still mental children, and only legal adults) tend to only think about today, this week, and next week, rather than next year or next decade.
Even top level pop and rock bands (other than wild phenomenons such as Taylor Swift) are sort of having a hard time.
Yeah they make a lot of money, but they don't make any money anymore off of recordings. They only make money if they work their tails off and stay on the road touring. It's a hard life, even though it's a lot of money... and there are actually quite a few other ways to live a hard life in exchange for a lot of money.
Actually, Taylor Swift works very hard, truth be told.