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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This website has lists of the undergraduate schools attended for people in 12 fields. Look at them and then tell us you think HR cares about the school attended more than the individual's qualifications.....

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/law/

While you're at it, on the same site a study by the Chronicle of Higher Ed is quoted that shows employers surveyed about what factors matter when hiring new graduates placed college prestige dead last.

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/page/5/
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Yea right, good luck proving your individual qualifications attending a mediocre shool majoring in pcychology LOL

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I work for a big DC company most would recognize and regularly hire interns and new grads. Sometimes psychology majors. Any of the schools on this list would be perfectly acceptable and schools that rank lower would be fine too. I want to know what you DID at school -- did you get involved in research, run a big project start to finish, what kind of internships did you have, did you do some low level customer service work, did you take classes with projects that relate to our work. Seriously, the actual name on the diploma means so, so little to the whole package. My best-ever hire was from the University of South Dakota. I've had crappy interns from Penn and Tufts. Great ones from a variety of schools including highly ranked ones. I have no idea what U of SD is ranked but just looked it up and it has a 91% acceptance rate and a 54% graduation rate but still has some great students. If anything, I'm more cautious interviewing the Ivy grads, screening for  entitlement attitude since I've had a bad hire in my past who thought she was above the grunt work tasks any entry level person (and higher level people!) have to do.

I realize there are certain fields where the brand name of the school matters -- IB, management consulting, being the main ones. But the vast majority of jobs IME it just doesn't matter as much as people applying to college think it does.[/quote]

Yes IB, Consulting because they pay real money to recruit the best.
Mediocre companies paying starting salaries $35K - $45K will get the leftovers.  
(IT is kind of exception because the demand is so high)

So what's your company and what do you pay the new grads?
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Not sharing the company name but we pay about $70k for new grads (not IT)
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Sounds like a great deal.
You can get $70K starting with a psychology degree from a mediocre college.
I wish I knew what company that is, but it seems like it's a rare secret sauce.

People are here to get some useful information.  
Not getting any from your post. Moving on.[/quote]

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