Where you go to college matters!

[Anonymous]

If you go to grad school (law, medicine, PhD), your undergrad probably doesn't matter. At least, I don't care to argue with all of the "I went to a dinky no-name school and then Hopkins med school and I turned out fine!" posters here.

But for everyone else, the name of the game is on-campus recruiting.

Many of us are too old to really understand the importance of OCR; in my day it was fairly optional unless you are going into certain fields like i-banking or consulting.

But now it is much more important; jobs that are offered through OCR simply aren't offered to the general public or even to students outside of a small number of chosen schools.

Tech firm A may recruit at both School X and School Y, but the School X positions may be core engineering positions while the School Y ones are support positions at a regional office.

OCR is important in tech, finance, management consulting and other fields. See this (highly critical) HBR article for how it works: https://hbr.org/2015/10/firms-are-wasting-mil...-only-a-few-campuses

Yes, where you go to school absolutely does matter if you're not going to be a doctor, lawyer or professor - the vast majority of kids; including the vast majority of those who intend to be doctors, lawyers or professors (those fields have a nasty cut).

[Anonymous]

Yawn.

[Anonymous]

Absolute nonsense. I hire many graduates every year. The idea that they are divided into some kind of caste system based on where they went to college is simply ludicrous. Of course we have a vague ranking of the different universities, but your personality, experience, interests, and individual accomplishments count for more. And of course, once you are in the door no one gives a crap where you went to university.

[Anonymous]

Don't be a fool. A star is a star no matter where they go to school. And a fool is a fool...

[Anonymous]

Simply untrue.

[Anonymous]

If a kid who really wants to be those things but didn't get the grades AT AGE 16 that they needed to get to one of the colleges you are saying 'matters', they absolutely can turn it around at whatever college they go to and make it happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a kid who really wants to be those things but didn't get the grades AT AGE 16 that they needed to get to one of the colleges you are saying 'matters', they absolutely can turn it around at whatever college they go to and make it happen.

I banking starting out at a second of third tier college requires a lot of nepotism or luck.

[Anonymous]

I can’t think of a single person, old or young, who got their job from an on campus recruiter.

[Anonymous]

If you are doing well in life then it shouldn't matter but it does, specially if you are insecure, think it reflects bad on you and feel like you'll never be good enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t think of a single person, old or young, who got their job from an on campus recruiter.

Then you were at wrong campus.

[Anonymous]

Lol. A long four years after graduation, I got a job with the premier employer in my field via some text-only job website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't be a fool. A star is a star no matter where they go to school. And a fool is a fool...

A star in a more luxurious constellation looks brighter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t think of a single person, old or young, who got their job from an on campus recruiter.

Then you were at wrong campus.

Maybe, but my reading comprehension is still better than yours. I wasn’t talking about just me or my own campus.

[Anonymous]

You too can be recruited straight into the next Lehman Brothers or Enron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you go to grad school (law, medicine, PhD), your undergrad probably doesn't matter. At least, I don't care to argue with all of the "I went to a dinky no-name school and then Hopkins med school and I turned out fine!" posters here.

But for everyone else, the name of the game is on-campus recruiting.

Many of us are too old to really understand the importance of OCR; in my day it was fairly optional unless you are going into certain fields like i-banking or consulting.

But now it is much more important; jobs that are offered through OCR simply aren't offered to the general public or even to students outside of a small number of chosen schools.

Tech firm A may recruit at both School X and School Y, but the School X positions may be core engineering positions while the School Y ones are support positions at a regional office.

OCR is important in tech, finance, management consulting and other fields. See this (highly critical) HBR article for how it works: https://hbr.org/2015/10/firms-are-wasting-mil...-only-a-few-campuses

Yes, where you go to school absolutely does matter if you're not going to be a doctor, lawyer or professor - the vast majority of kids; including the vast majority of those who intend to be doctors, lawyers or professors (those fields have a nasty cut).

What a stupid post.