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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, but it doesn’t matter. It matters to the  the overbearing helicopter parent that wear their kid’s college brand like a designer handbag and that we will be directionless and aimless when DC leaves the nest. But for your kid, their employer will care that they went to school but not where.  The exception, of course, is on both extremes. If they go to a top 5-7 school, great, they get bonus points (except for the many employers that specifically don’t want someone with those credentials because they tend to believe that they are entitled to an accelerated journey).  On the other extreme, if they went to an online school or a super esoteric school, there better be a good reason.

Other than that, schools #7-150 or so are completely interchangeable in the real world. [/quote]

[b]There are a group of employers that for all intents and purposes essentially only recruit from the top 10 schools[/b].  I agree there are also plenty of employers that don’t waste their time recruiting from those schools as well.

It’s more than just “bonus” points.

I actually believe there are many employers in tech that don’t care if you go to college at all.  My kid interned at an AI company that raised $50MM+ of VC and 1/3 of the company didn’t go to college.[/quote]

If you are talking about big banks and consulting, I would venture to argue that these are the jobs and institutions that are sucking the wealth from the bottom half of the population and perpetuating the wealth gap. It is all so ironic.[/quote]

+1 I generally think it "doesn't matter" because I work with people from all kinds of schools and know lots of successful people who went to lots of kinds of schools. But I acknowledge I don't work in IB or big consulting. I also have no interest in doing so and my kids don't either. So those firms' recruiting practices are really irrelevant. Still, FWIW, my kid goes to VT and I've seen companies people on here swear only hire from certain schools on the list of first employers for VT students. So, yeah, I take that with a grain of salt.[/quote]

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