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[quote=Anonymous]But you can't get a job in investment banking with an engineering degree from Illinois. This seems to be the common fall back of someone who themselves or their kids sacrificed so much to squeeze a bit extra out of their GPA or test scores to be admitted to the most selective schools.

People who insist you need an engineering degree from a top private college to get hired at top companies are basically stuck in their own heads. They only notice the MIT grad at Google or Apple while completely ignoring all the state school engineers killing it at the same companies. Even when you show them that Apple and Tesla hire from everywhere and care way more about what you can actually do, they dig in deeper.

Admitting a state school grad might be just as hireable feels like their sacrifice was pointless. So instead of dealing with that uncomfortable truth, they just keep insisting the elite private college degree matters more than actual engineering skills and problem solving ability. And when called out on this, they throw out a red herring about IB and private equity hiring from top privates while completely ignoring that finance firms hire for prestige and connections, not engineering skills[/quote]

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