Would a Hillsdale graduate have reduced professional opportunities?

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.

How would notre dame be lumped in that mess? Are you going to include Georgetown, too?

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Anonymous wrote:While I am not a fan of anything MAGA, I usually keep politics out of my decision making when analyzing a candidate’s skills. So in that regard, it’s fine.

The problem with Hillsdale for me is that I see it as a place where country club dads park their unfortunately mediocre offspring before folding them back into the family business. So I assume the firepower, analytical skills, broad social savvy and drive that I need on my team simply will not be present in that graduate pool. I imagine some might disagree with that, but a candidate would not make it through the filters we have in place.

The good news? Lots of other great choices for the traditional guy. Tell us a little bit about your son and maybe we can throw out a few good options? One of my kids chose Auburn. We are left leaning techies, so it surprised us. But said child loved their college experience and is now very well networked and employed.

Your post illustrates the problem is this thread, not Hillsdale, and that the problem is ignorance, not wisdom. In the first place, it is not a country club republican college by any stretch of the imagination. You clearly have no idea what country club dads are lke. Country club dads with mediocre offsprings send their kids to state schools or colleges like Loyola MD (I don't like using the word mediocre, but let's assume it means middling academic interests). Hillsdale has always been a more intellectually conservative college with a strong Christian focus. It is also nothing like Liberty or Bob Jones. As a PP commented, it is the twin of schools like Oberlin or Wesleyan, just on the conservative end of the same spectrum that pulls people towards beliefs in ideology. The difference is that Oberlin and Wesleyan's progressivism is fashionable and respectable among the left. Hillsdale is not.

That aside, I work in corp America, F500 firm. I'd venture to say the vast majority of HR recruiters and hiring managers will not not know anything about Hillsdale College and just think it as another one of the midwestern LACs. They will see you graduated from a college and focus on your work experience. Most people do not judge the way people on this thread do.

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I've taken several of Hillsdale's free online video classes: The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, and C.S. Lewis and Christianity. They're not substitutes for actual coursework, be they are very well done and informative.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem is that entry-level jobs get 100s of resumes. They can select whoever they want for interviews. No reason to select Hillsdale when there's so many others to choose from. No one wants to interview the kid and find out he's a maga-type or misogynist that will create trouble in the office. They will avoid interviewing instead. Ignorance is bliss.

Interesting. I’m a hiring manager and I feel the same way about people with degrees in women’s gender studies.

Well you would love kids from Hillsdale then. I know of a very conservative Catholic who wouldn't even apply to ND because their psychology department was too woke on how they dealt with gender. This person was very interested in Hillsdale though. Sounds like your kind of person.

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Hillsdale = sinister, power hungry, cabal
BJU = bible thumping, elijah fire preaching
LU = culty, spouse shopping, christian coalition

They all represent various flavors of Christian Nationalism.

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The Hillsdale humanities curriculum is trash these days. I love a great books curriculum but theirs is most "let's talk about how awesome Europe is." I don't know as much about their sciences.


Look at Sewanee.

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To be honest, I’ve never heard of the school.
- D.C. native

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Yes, the school your child selects may alter his future employment prospects in a variety of ways, depending on the career path he chooses and the idiosyncrasies of the people making hiring decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:The Hillsdale humanities curriculum is trash these days. I love a great books curriculum but theirs is most "let's talk about how awesome Europe is." I don't know as much about their sciences.


Look at Sewanee.

You had me intrigued so I googled their curriculum and found the online offerings: https://online.hillsdale.edu/ In browsing it it seems pretty cool to me, very western oriented, certainly. Covers all the basics and these would have been standard topics at any college pre 2000. I have no idea why you think it's trash.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem is that entry-level jobs get 100s of resumes. They can select whoever they want for interviews. No reason to select Hillsdale when there's so many others to choose from. No one wants to interview the kid and find out he's a maga-type or misogynist that will create trouble in the office. They will avoid interviewing instead. Ignorance is bliss.

Interesting. I’m a hiring manager and I feel the same way about people with degrees in women’s gender studies.

Well you would love kids from Hillsdale then. I know of a very conservative Catholic who wouldn't even apply to ND because their psychology department was too woke on how they dealt with gender. This person was very interested in Hillsdale though. Sounds like your kind of person.

I've seen two resumes from this school in the last 5 years. One candidate was extraordinarily impressive in many ways; the other more run of the mill, but certainly intelligent and capable enough. We didn't end up hiring either so I don't know the outcomes but if I had to guess, I would predict that both did well.

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Tell your kid to major in something where conservative Christians predominate. Is your kid one? If not move on.

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If any rational person would like to study a condensed view of the insulated echo chamber that is the wealthy elitist left, just read through the responses in this thread.

It's just intellectually lazy to classify people into groups based on your own predetermined biases. Saying a kid from Hillsdale is some MAGA nut is the same as saying all black people are criminals. It's staggering that more leftists don't see that...

Back to the topic (which is just political clickbait), each candidate should be judged on the entirety of their profile - not just where they went to school. I'd rather hire someone who comes from Community College with a lesser pedigree but works hard vs. a blue haired, trust fund high performer from NYU who is easily triggered and will need alot of down time to recover from their various emotional traumas.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.

No, Florida and Alabama aren't remotely like Hillsdale.

Because of one our foolish folks in management, we hire an intern or two every summer from Hillsdale. They are TERRIBLE (except for one who was pretty talented). They simply cannot think deeply about anything. No analysis skills. Not able to write a paper that makes logical sense. Their reasoning is paper thin.

Big state schools like Florida/Alabama have lots of talented people in them. Especially Florida. UF has rigorous programs in science, medicine, business and engineering.

+1 and I would never fault someone for going to their in-state flagship school, even if the politics of that state suck. That's crazy

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.

ND, a top 20 university, is not remotely akin to Libery or Hillsdale.

+1 Notre Dame has a ton of name recognition, has so for decades, plus known for sports. It's viewed more similar to Georgetown but a notch below.

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Anonymous wrote:If any rational person would like to study a condensed view of the insulated echo chamber that is the wealthy elitist left, just read through the responses in this thread.

It's just intellectually lazy to classify people into groups based on your own predetermined biases. Saying a kid from Hillsdale is some MAGA nut is the same as saying all black people are criminals. It's staggering that more leftists don't see that...

Back to the topic (which is just political clickbait), each candidate should be judged on the entirety of their profile - not just where they went to school. I'd rather hire someone who comes from Community College with a lesser pedigree but works hard vs. a blue haired, trust fund high performer from NYU who is easily triggered and will need alot of down time to recover from their various emotional traumas.

What's intellectually lazy is equating racial discrimination with political bias. No one can help the color they are born with, and it isn't predictive of values or choices. A purposeful and freely-chosen association with a political entity can be predictive of values and choices, however. You acknowledge this yourself in your rant about 'leftists' and what you think they think. Criticizing others for a thing you are actively doing it yourself is a maneuver only trolls think is clever.