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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the posts are about VA schools. UVA is a very good school. Would you make your kid go to UMD if they got into Michigan, Tufts, Wake Forest, Carnegie Mellon or other top 30 schools? I think that where you go to college stays with you the rest of your life. Every time you give a presentation and you’re introduced your education is usually mentioned. Throughout your life probably thousands of people will ask you. Whether we like it or not, people make judgements about you based on this, whether it’s a potential employer or love interest.[/quote]

I'm a female executive at an IT company and I speak all the time at conferences and events in the DC area. I'm never ever introduced and my college mentioned. Never. I went to UMASS and people cannjufge away. I think your statement is about your own insecurity,  not the reality. Nobody cares about your degree beyond your first and maybe, just maybe second job. I run an organization of 1500 people and nobody is impressed of you went to Tufts. When I review a linked in profile,  I rarely scroll to the bottom. I don't care when you did in 2004, let alone where you graduated from in 1998.[/quote]

What role are you in?

If degree didn’t matter, you would see lifetime earnings converge for college gradutes. Yet we know that lifetime earnings are correlated to college attended. Probably some limitation to causation there, but  college is playing some role in this. To be clear, I’m not necessarily a proponent of going to the “best” school you can go to. For example, a young adult looking to go into teaching, nursing or accounting should be balancing cost against school prestige looking to achieve an optimal outcome. On the other hand, a young adult looking at high finance, [i]elite IT jobs,[/i] big law or something similar does need to position herself to have an elite resume. For example, lawyers that speak at conferences always have their undergrad and law school mentioned. [/quote]

I'm not going to out myself. There are very few women in my capacity.

There are no such thing as "elite" IT jobs. Bright people work their way into the best jobs. Brilliance and your alma matter are mutually exclusive. Our EVP of engineering, who is brilliant, holds patents, and is currently a pioneer in quantum computing did not even finish his college education. Most people cant even wrap their head around quantum compute.[/quote]

Please stop.  I know that there are brilliant people without fancy degrees.  And genius beats pedigree every single time.  But I know a ton of quantum info scientists (some might consider me one). Most are PhDs from mit, Stanford, Harvard, Chicago, Berkeley and Wisconsin. I know I am missing some big powerhouse schools but don’t let’s pretend they don’t exist. [/quote]

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