In what professions is school prestige especially important?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you government lawyers at DOJ? Because pedigree definitely matters for hiring here, even for experienced attorneys.

Wrong!

Signed, A DOJ Attorney

Really depends on where you are at DOJ. Very competitive offices like the SG's Office or Civil Appellate or OLC or Federal Programs? Pedigree matters a ton.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I've met almost no Ivy League-educated accountants.

There's no accounting major at most of those schools.

Except at Penn, where they give all Wharton grads a BS in economics rather than such a low degree as accounting.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot:

Law
Finance
Academia

Somewhat:

Medicine

Hardly at all:

Accounting
Dentistry
Elementary and high school teaching
Nursing

I would look at these two as fields with relatively high demand where you can do them almost anywhere geographically.

Yes, of course. but there is variation in prestige within the profession of nursing and a top program, plus certification, are important.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you government lawyers at DOJ? Because pedigree definitely matters for hiring here, even for experienced attorneys.

Wrong!

Signed, A DOJ Attorney

Really depends on where you are at DOJ. Very competitive offices like the SG's Office or Civil Appellate or OLC or Federal Programs? Pedigree matters a ton.

In something like '10 or '12, DOJ OARM acknowledged that something like 25% of the law schools (then about 45, I'd guess) accounted for a substantial majority of the attorney positions at DOJ. That office has authority over all DOJ lawyers in all agencies and offices, apart from SES and Appointees. That's certainly consistent with my observations when I was in the govt.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I've met almost no Ivy League-educated accountants.

There's no accounting major at most of those schools.

Except at Penn, where they give all Wharton grads a BS in economics rather than such a low degree as accounting.

You can do a concentration in accounting at Wharton.

https://undergrad-inside.wharton.upenn.edu/concentrations/acct/

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course. but there is variation in prestige within the profession of nursing and a top program, plus certification, are important.

Maybe 2% of nurses have jobs that require "prestigious" degrees. And more often it's about having a master's degree rather than getting your nursing training at say, U Penn.

Nurses are a hell of a lot more egalitarian than lawyers and academics in this regard.

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I would say politics. Cannot be POTUS unless you went to Harvard or Yale.

Sincerely,

Both Clinton's
Both Bushes
Obama

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Management consulting at the top-tier strategy firms like McKinsey and The Boston Consulting Group.

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Add big-name Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook to the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would say politics. Cannot be POTUS unless you went to Harvard or Yale.

Sincerely,

Both Clinton's
Both Bushes
Obama

Remember, these are people who went to college at least 30 years ago. For today's kids, there are many more ultra-prestigious schools than just those two.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I've met almost no Ivy League-educated accountants.

There's no accounting major at most of those schools.

There aren't business majors at most Ivy League schools. So what?

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Anonymous wrote:Add big-name Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook to the list.

baloney. read and article recently that said Google, Facebook and others of that ilk are branching beyond Ivys to get students who are independent thinkers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course. but there is variation in prestige within the profession of nursing and a top program, plus certification, are important.

Maybe 2% of nurses have jobs that require "prestigious" degrees. And more often it's about having a master's degree rather than getting your nursing training at say, U Penn.

Nurses are a hell of a lot more egalitarian than lawyers and academics in this regard.

+1

My sister is a nurse--Stanford nursing undergrad, JHU masters. Also BU PhD. As a professor of nursing she advised her DD to go into the nurse practitioner program that offered the most financial aid because in her view the school doesn't really matter in nursing.

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theatrical design.


If you want to be designing on Broadway, tours and the big regional houses- you better have gone to Yale.

It's Yale or bust.

I have a few friends who have managed without, but they are unique. They both did summer apprenticeships at Santa Fe opera in different departments.


Please do not waste your time and money on NCSA. Your child would be better served at any other school and program, that has good financial aid.

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^^^ I would add this is specifically for your MFA.
I would not recommend a masters from any other program unless it is free tuition with stipend. I don't think there are many of those left.