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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many people in here huffing and puffing that they don’t care about school rank when they hire.

Yet we know that grads from better schools make more money than grads from lower-tier schools both when they start and 20+ years after graduation. Thus, it is unquestionably clear that writ large, employers DO care about school rank, and do think that grads of top schools make better employees.

Money talks, bullsht stays on DCUM forums.[/quote]

You're right about the BS on DCUM, but wrong about whose dishing it out.

Read Kruger and Dale, then you'll understand how wrong you are about salaries. Yes, average salaries may be higher for grads of elite schools, but that's due to the average individual having higher ability and ambition, not to anything the college did. If the same student were to attend Rutgers instead of Princeton, they'd be making the same amount throughout their career. Tim Cook as a grad of Auburn is just as successful as he would have been as a grad of Yale.

Employers think that highly capable, ambitious people who work well in a team make better employees, regardless of what college they attended. There are more of that kind of person at elite colleges because those colleges get first choice, but employers will take them from wherever they can get them.[/quote]

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