Where you go to college matters!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So OP, say you were laying in the emergency room and the only doctor to save you went a no name medical school. Would you let them save you?

Say....one of these doctors at the Mayo Clinic:

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/medicine/

Note where they went to med school, too.

another lesshighschool spam post

DP: How is this spam? I find the links more useful than 95% of the blathering on this forum and the site isn't selling anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So OP, say you were laying in the emergency room and the only doctor to save you went a no name medical school. Would you let them save you?

Say....one of these doctors at the Mayo Clinic:

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/medicine/

Note where they went to med school, too.

another lesshighschool spam post

DP: How is this spam? I find the links more useful than 95% of the blathering on this forum and the site isn't selling anything.

+1 Great source of data for showing how wrong some of the posts on here are.

[Anonymous]

Only matters for IB and top consulting firms which most smart kids leave after 3 years anyway.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Um, isn’t that how those fields work anyway? And, for the legacy/tutored/stacked students attending these colleges are a part of that same system?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:a campus recruiter is like a multi level marketing person, they are looking for people to do crap work and hope they stay but few ever stay at their first job very long

Eh well that's everyone's first job experience regardless of whether they are recruited on campus or not.

Why do you start your daily post to the college section with "eh"? It's annoying. You sound articulate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:a campus recruiter is like a multi level marketing person, they are looking for people to do crap work and hope they stay but few ever stay at their first job very long

Eh well that's everyone's first job experience regardless of whether they are recruited on campus or not.

Why do you start your daily post to the college section with "eh"? It's annoying. You sound inarticulate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So OP, say you were laying in the emergency room and the only doctor to save you went a no name medical school. Would you let them save you?

Say....one of these doctors at the Mayo Clinic:

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/medicine/

Note where they went to med school, too.

another lesshighschool spam post

DP: How is this spam? I find the links more useful than 95% of the blathering on this forum and the site isn't selling anything.

It’s not. PP has no meaningful response and has to resort to name calling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only matters for IB and top consulting firms which most smart kids leave after 3 years anyway.

Why do they leave?

[Anonymous]

I and many of the successful professionals I know went to middling at best state schools. Salaries in the hundreds…so, not sure what your point is.

[Anonymous]

College no long matters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I and many of the successful professionals I know went to middling at best state schools. Salaries in the hundreds…so, not sure what your point is.

+1

[Anonymous]

News Flash: Where you go to school does not matter, who you know matters.

DD plays soccer at UNC and gets several internships opportunities including one from Citadel. Her BFF is also on the team and the father is an EVP there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The OP is absolutely correct.

It's not that recruiters look at two candidates and choose the one from the 'better' school. It's that they never see the kid from the lesser school at all because their company doesn't recruit at that school.

I have a kid at an Ivy and it is stunning how many of the top consulting and banking companies literally woo her. They give pre-interview sessions to help train her in doing case-based interviews. They email her asking her to apply. One company invited her for a week-long training (called a 'summit') culminating in an internship interview, and sent her a basket of muffins because she accepted the offer to attend the summit (!). There's nothing special about her but she is clearly getting extra attention.

On the other hand, I teach at a lower tiered university, and it's not just that our students don't not get emails or extra help from those same companies. It's that those companies don't come to campus to do campus interviews and don't really entertain applications unless the kid has some other hook (parent at the company, etc). These companies have a defined list of 'target' schools (and it's public what schools those are).

This is all related to wall street/consulting. I've heard similar things about big tech. It doesn't apply to all companies. But it does apply to a lot of companies that are well respected, pay well, and hire a ton of undergrads.

The bottom tier Ivies promoters are so funny. They keep trying to freeride off HYP. Some college that isn't even in the T10 won't produce magical outcomes. That's why full pay at Cornell, Columbia, and its peers like USC is a tough sell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:a campus recruiter is like a multi level marketing person, they are looking for people to do crap work and hope they stay but few ever stay at their first job very long

Eh well that's everyone's first job experience regardless of whether they are recruited on campus or not.

Why do you start your daily post to the college section with "eh"? It's annoying. You sound inarticulate

Eh I’m from Canada eh?

[Anonymous]

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

I was recruited by LB from Brown and it was a great experience. I made a ton of money and developed the skills needed to get me into a top grad program at MIT.