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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Name recognition among employers.  If an employer gets a resume from a kid who went to Harvard and a kid who went to University of Maryland, who do you think she'll hire?  It won't be the kid from Maryland.[/quote]
Not any employer. Ivy graduates have a reputation of being arrogant prima donnas. Of course, not all are, but this is certainly a factor outside of Big 4 management consulting, Big Law, maybe a few other narrow niches.[/quote]

This.  My dad was a division director at a large tech company and absolutely would not hire Ivy grads and did not want us applying to them.  He'd had too many bad experiences with arrogant prima donnas.

Personally, I've worked with plenty people from Ivys and most have been great but the ones who are a PITA seem to directly tie their PITA-ness to their Ivy experience -- one of the first entry level people I supervised didn't think she should have to fax stuff (a huge part of an assistant's job in those days) because she went to Penn (yes, she actually said that to me, her boss).  It definitely made me look closer for that entitlement attitude when interviewing Ivy grads, more so than those from other schools.[/quote]

This has been my experience.

I had an employee from an Ivy who informed me loftily that the college I went to (which was a top 10 SLAC) was her "safety school."  She's had a lot of problems with arrogant behavior and cluelessness.[/quote]

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