In what professions is school prestige especially important?

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Academic Science

People are recruited on the basis on the lab where they did their graduate and post doc work.. Once in the door advancement begins to reflect more on the individual's publication record.

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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?

Big Consulting Firms and Investment Banks often hire graduates from Ivies , Stanford, and Williams and Amherst, who major in math, history or economics rather than business majors from good large universities. This is based somewhat on the notion that they prefer someone with a better overall education ( which the cannot replicate) and can teach them the business skills they need to know. But part of it is the power of alumni bias and class prejudice.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

Big Consulting Firms and Investment Banks often hire graduates from Ivies , Stanford, and Williams and Amherst, who major in math, history or economics rather than business majors from good large universities. This is based somewhat on the notion that they prefer someone with a better overall education ( which the cannot replicate) and can teach them the business skills they need to know. But part of it is the power of alumni bias and class prejudice.

This is true from my experience in NY. I got tons of interviews from investment banks/wall street and white shoe law firms with a BA in English after graduation. All my co-workers were econ, politics or liberal arts majors from Ivies or top 20 schools. Did not meet any business undergrads.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

Big Consulting Firms and Investment Banks often hire graduates from Ivies , Stanford, and Williams and Amherst, who major in math, history or economics rather than business majors from good large universities. This is based somewhat on the notion that they prefer someone with a better overall education ( which the cannot replicate) and can teach them the business skills they need to know. But part of it is the power of alumni bias and class prejudice.

When I did a summer internship at Morgan Stanley, it was literally 1/2 Wharton finance majors and 1/2 students from ~10 other elite colleges (1 or 2 from each) w/ standard social science-y majors (probably a couple of econs, but lots of philosophy, poli sci, etc) and 1 other guy (from a big state school they didn't recruit at; no idea what his hook was).

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Anonymous wrote:Law. Where you went to law school will follow you around, every single day from 25 to 105. On the plus side, lawyers don't care that much about undergrad.

I don't actually agree with this. I am definitely noticing that many of the managing partners at large DC firms went to very avg law schools. What they have is enormous books of business.