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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Top engineering firms only really actively recruit grads from the Top engineering schools.   Not that other grads won’t eventually end up somewhere.  They will just have a different path to get there.  [/quote]

This. Prestige matters for engineering at the top levels. There are about 15 ivy/privates and 5 publics that are far above the rest[/quote]

Yes  but remember there are thousands of students at each of these top schools and top companies will not hire them all, only the top students. So the average Joes there will end up in the same places as students from other colleges.[/quote]career outcomes at the 1and 5 yr mark as well as phd matriculation lists indicate the average joe engineer at stanford, princeton, penn, MIT, CMU UCB et al do much much better than the average joe at VT or NC state. Not even close. [/quote]

For DCuM, that is a fairly precise claim.  Source?

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DP....most of those schools have data published online. We looked that up when ours was applying to engineering. You can break it down by subfield and degree(BS v PhD ) at many schools. we happen to have family members who are or have been in academia and industry in Engineering and all three came up with almost the same 10-15 schools to target. They said aim for match of peers first and the highest level coursework available. Their collective experience was that teaching is quite different at average public T50 engineering versus elite(UCB/GT/ivy/mit /stanford). 
[/quote]We get it...You need to justify that tuition bill somehow. But your kid will be working alongside Auburn and Cal State grads regardless, and the market doesn't care about your academic pedigree rankings.[/quote]

Assuming your kid just wants to work at Bechtel or the equivalent…but tell me how many Auburn or Cal State grads you will work next to at a VC fund or a hedge fund or a PE fund or McKinsey…or all the other options available.[/quote]

Yes, because working for a hedge fund is what they should aspire to do. [/quote]
I sure hope that's sarcasm. As an engineer, even the [i]thought[/i] of working for a hedge fund makes me nauseous and so not what I would've gone into engineering school "aspiring" to.

If not, you do you.

Yes, projects need money to be built but the two pursuits are not the same. Shove a person with a passion for engineering into finance and they'll likely be miserable (but rich?).[/quote]

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