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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you go to grad school (law, medicine, PhD), your undergrad probably doesn't matter. At least, I don't care to argue with all of the "I went to a dinky no-name school and then Hopkins med school and I turned out fine!" posters here.

But for everyone else, the name of the game is on-campus recruiting.

Many of us are too old to really understand the importance of OCR; in my day it was fairly optional unless you are going into certain fields like i-banking or consulting.

But now it is much more important; jobs that are offered through OCR simply aren't offered to the general public or even to students outside of a small number of chosen schools.

Tech firm A may recruit at both School X and School Y, but the School X positions may be core engineering positions while the School Y ones are support positions at a regional office.

OCR is important in tech, finance, management consulting and other fields. See this (highly critical) HBR article for how it works: https://hbr.org/2015/10/firms-are-wasting-mil...-only-a-few-campuses

Yes, where you go to school absolutely does matter if you're not going to be a doctor, lawyer or professor - the vast majority of kids; including the vast majority of those who intend to be doctors, lawyers or professors (those fields have a nasty cut).[/quote]

Oh My Goodness.

I'm being called out! [/quote]

What you do at university is more important than where you go. This having been said there aware a certain few  mediocre schools which don’t have great outcomes or value but those schools don’t get mentioned on DCUM. But anything mentioned on these boards offer opportunities if you work at it and choose wisely.

I look back on the law review of the top 10 school where I attended and was an editor and at the top of the class. On the Editorial Board we did have Harvard, Penn, Dartmouth and Duke but we also had Oregon State, BYU, Penn State and Muelenberg (sp). The most talented was the Muelenberg grad, a FBI agent who was intensely bright.  People have their own way in the world and it is not dependent on the school they attended. As for myself, I obtained admission to a very difficult honors program which I really didn’t qualify for but the professor let me in. That experience was so difficult it made look school look easy, so  what you put into an institution matters. [/quote]

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