Where you go to college matters!

[Anonymous]

Where Fortune 500 CEOs did their undegrads. There's as many Iowa grads as Yale grads.

https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/schools/which-colleges-most-alumni-ceos-fortune-500-companies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where Fortune 500 CEOs did their undegrads. There's as many Iowa grads as Yale grads.

https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/schools/which-colleges-most-alumni-ceos-fortune-500-companies

This chart actually pretty much defeats your point. Show 122 CEOs from Ivy schools…so 24% from just 8 schools.

Throw in Northwestern, Stanford and Uchicago and that’s 56 more.

So 178 CEOs from just 11 top schools.

Those numbers actually lead one to think gee I should attend the top schools to massively increase my chance to be a CEO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where Fortune 500 CEOs did their undegrads. There's as many Iowa grads as Yale grads.

https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/schools/which-colleges-most-alumni-ceos-fortune-500-companies

This chart actually pretty much defeats your point. Show 122 CEOs from Ivy schools…so 24% from just 8 schools.

Throw in Northwestern, Stanford and Uchicago and that’s 56 more.

So 178 CEOs from just 11 top schools.

Those numbers actually lead one to think gee I should attend the top schools to massively increase my chance to be a CEO.

Most of those are from grad school, they didn't publish for undergrad-only aside from the top 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where Fortune 500 CEOs did their undegrads. There's as many Iowa grads as Yale grads.

https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/schools/which-colleges-most-alumni-ceos-fortune-500-companies

This chart actually pretty much defeats your point. Show 122 CEOs from Ivy schools…so 24% from just 8 schools.

Throw in Northwestern, Stanford and Uchicago and that’s 56 more.

So 178 CEOs from just 11 top schools.

Those numbers actually lead one to think gee I should attend the top schools to massively increase my chance to be a CEO.

Most of those are from grad school, they didn't publish for undergrad-only aside from the top 3.

So universities get to go twice? Doesn’t seem fair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where Fortune 500 CEOs did their undegrads. There's as many Iowa grads as Yale grads.

https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/schools/which-colleges-most-alumni-ceos-fortune-500-companies

This chart actually pretty much defeats your point. Show 122 CEOs from Ivy schools…so 24% from just 8 schools.

Throw in Northwestern, Stanford and Uchicago and that’s 56 more.

So 178 CEOs from just 11 top schools.

Those numbers actually lead one to think gee I should attend the top schools to massively increase my chance to be a CEO.

If the top 8 flagship universities got to choose first from the top high school students, they'd be overrepresented, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Undergraduate institution matters on Wall Street and Silicon Valley. But 99% of college graduates probably aren't aiming for Google or Goldman Sachs and most of them will do fine in life in spite of that.[/quote

It doesn't matter in tech or on WS either.

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/lists/tech/

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/wall-street/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember working at a well-known tech firm a year before their IPO with a $10b valuation. We recruited the top 25 CS schools. Positions weren't offered to some and not others. Recruiting was just about setting up interviews. Interview outcomes determined offers and included recommendations for placement.

And in the interview, it was way more important that the candidate not chew gum, stare at the interviewer's nice rack, answer their phone, make off-color jokes, etc. than it was that they have a degree from a specific college.

[Anonymous]

Opportunities are very everywhere for college students regardless of where you attend. My DS was a CS major at a third tier university but he always went to technology conferences and established professional network connections there. He got rejected so many times that he lost count but there is a FinTech startup that took a chance on him and hired him after he graduated in 2014. The company was acquired by a bigger FinTech player in 2018 and my DS got his options fully vested worth 25M at the age of twenty six. It is what you make of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Opportunities are very everywhere for college students regardless of where you attend. My DS was a CS major at a third tier university but he always went to technology conferences and established professional network connections there. He got rejected so many times that he lost count but there is a FinTech startup that took a chance on him and hired him after he graduated in 2014. The company was acquired by a bigger FinTech player in 2018 and my DS got his options fully vested worth 25M at the age of twenty six. It is what you make of it.

On the one hand I love hearing these stories...but on the other hand you are saying that your kid actually had a very hard time getting a job coming out of a 3rd tier college and got very lucky (luck is absolutely a part of life) that the "one" company that was willing to hire him also had a successful exit.

You do realize that your same kid coming out of say Stanford would have had 100 start-ups vying for his services (plus countless large tech, VC firms, etc.).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Opportunities are very everywhere for college students regardless of where you attend. My DS was a CS major at a third tier university but he always went to technology conferences and established professional network connections there. He got rejected so many times that he lost count but there is a FinTech startup that took a chance on him and hired him after he graduated in 2014. The company was acquired by a bigger FinTech player in 2018 and my DS got his options fully vested worth 25M at the age of twenty six. It is what you make of it.

On the one hand I love hearing these stories...but on the other hand you are saying that your kid actually had a very hard time getting a job coming out of a 3rd tier college and got very lucky (luck is absolutely a part of life) that the "one" company that was willing to hire him also had a successful exit.

You do realize that your same kid coming out of say Stanford would have had 100 start-ups vying for his services (plus countless large tech, VC firms, etc.).

Stanford grads never get rejected? What a nice claim that must be to make in visits to high schools!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Opportunities are very everywhere for college students regardless of where you attend. My DS was a CS major at a third tier university but he always went to technology conferences and established professional network connections there. He got rejected so many times that he lost count but there is a FinTech startup that took a chance on him and hired him after he graduated in 2014. The company was acquired by a bigger FinTech player in 2018 and my DS got his options fully vested worth 25M at the age of twenty six. It is what you make of it.

On the one hand I love hearing these stories...but on the other hand you are saying that your kid actually had a very hard time getting a job coming out of a 3rd tier college and got very lucky (luck is absolutely a part of life) that the "one" company that was willing to hire him also had a successful exit.

You do realize that your same kid coming out of say Stanford would have had 100 start-ups vying for his services (plus countless large tech, VC firms, etc.).

Complete BS, unless you are referring to the convict Elizabeth Holmes. Everyone gets rejected regardless of where you attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Opportunities are very everywhere for college students regardless of where you attend. My DS was a CS major at a third tier university but he always went to technology conferences and established professional network connections there. He got rejected so many times that he lost count but there is a FinTech startup that took a chance on him and hired him after he graduated in 2014. The company was acquired by a bigger FinTech player in 2018 and my DS got his options fully vested worth 25M at the age of twenty six. It is what you make of it.

On the one hand I love hearing these stories...but on the other hand you are saying that your kid actually had a very hard time getting a job coming out of a 3rd tier college and got very lucky (luck is absolutely a part of life) that the "one" company that was willing to hire him also had a successful exit.

You do realize that your same kid coming out of say Stanford would have had 100 start-ups vying for his services (plus countless large tech, VC firms, etc.).

Stanford grads never get rejected? What a nice claim that must be to make in visits to high schools!

Not my fault if you can't understand the point.

Would just appreciate if folks would stop posting links to things like the Fortune 500 CEOs or giving a unicorn story (that for the most part says going to a 3rd Tier college was actually not great), both of which actually support (not refute) the OP's statement.

Wish someone would post that my kid attended a school ranked #300 and there were multiple Fortune 500 companies recruiting on-campus and 99% of the grads are employed in high-paying/satisfying careers. That's what we want to see as examples.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would just appreciate if folks would stop posting links to things like the Fortune 500 CEOs or giving a unicorn story (that for the most part says going to a 3rd Tier college was actually not great), both of which actually support (not refute) the OP's statement.

Wish someone would post that my kid attended a school ranked #300 and there were multiple Fortune 500 companies recruiting on-campus and 99% of the grads are employed in high-paying/satisfying careers. That's what we want to see as examples.

OK. What is the percentage of graduating students at those schools actually work for VCs, PEs, startups? 50%? Or is it more like less than 1%? It is still like winning the lottery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Opportunities are very everywhere for college students regardless of where you attend. My DS was a CS major at a third tier university but he always went to technology conferences and established professional network connections there. He got rejected so many times that he lost count but there is a FinTech startup that took a chance on him and hired him after he graduated in 2014. The company was acquired by a bigger FinTech player in 2018 and my DS got his options fully vested worth 25M at the age of twenty six. It is what you make of it.

On the one hand I love hearing these stories...but on the other hand you are saying that your kid actually had a very hard time getting a job coming out of a 3rd tier college and got very lucky (luck is absolutely a part of life) that the "one" company that was willing to hire him also had a successful exit.

You do realize that your same kid coming out of say Stanford would have had 100 start-ups vying for his services (plus countless large tech, VC firms, etc.).

Stanford grads never get rejected? What a nice claim that must be to make in visits to high schools!

Not my fault if you can't understand the point.

Would just appreciate if folks would stop posting links to things like the Fortune 500 CEOs or giving a unicorn story (that for the most part says going to a 3rd Tier college was actually not great), both of which actually support (not refute) the OP's statement.

Wish someone would post that my kid attended a school ranked #300 and there were multiple Fortune 500 companies recruiting on-campus and 99% of the grads are employed in high-paying/satisfying careers. That's what we want to see as examples.

How does the list of CEOs support OP's statement? Because top colleges are overrepresented based on their population vs. that of other colleges? Those colleges are more highly represented because their students are almost all brilliant, super ambitious, hard-working, etc., and many are already well-connected before they even get to college (through their parents). It's not because those students attended elite colleges that they're successful, it's because they continue to be in college and adulthood what they already were in high school.

[Anonymous]

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