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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The TJ name and network helps get college internships which helps you get your first full time job. It's very beneficial.[/quote]

No question for first job things like that can be influential. That is not what is the topic of this discussion. It’s like going to a no name college or grad school absolutely can matter for a first job but after that, they are looking at your experience. [/quote]

Fun fact: getting a decent internship or first job because of TJ then helps with the next job.

For example my sibling got a clerkship with a judge based on the TJ name (not even in the DC area!), and that clerkship was a resume bullet point for the firm after law school, which in turn got the next job, and the next, and so on.[/quote]

Fun Fact: That’s entirely different from the second job and third and fourth being bc the non TJ grad hiring individual is impressed with the fact that a kid went to TJ 5+ years ago. [/quote]

Sure, TJ is no Harvard (nor is it Andover/Exeter). However people on here are acting like TJ has no impact on career and that's not demonstrably not true.[/quote]

I don’t recall anyone saying this. I recall people saying going to TJ freshman thru senior year of HS is not helpful for your career as an adult after your first job unless it is someone related to TJ, in which case replace the TJ with any connection to the hiring person and it’s the same advantage. [/quote]

This isn't true either because anyone that has gone to a top school has heard of Stuyvesant and presumably TJ as well.[/quote]

So? Unless it is a connection, like any connection, it won’t matter. I’ve heard of those schools but what you’ve been up
to in the job or college is what I care about…unless I know of a direct connection you: same hometown, same HS, same elementary school, etc. but if w/out this connection, if you went to Stuyvesant and then went to x unimpressive college… and had so so jobs…or mediocre college grades or a bad lsat, who cares? It’s like advertising that I was seemingly impressive in the past. [/quote]

Once again I went to stuyvesant, so a little different from TJ, but here are some ways I have seen a Stuy degree help.

A fairly prominent black stuy grad relates story of how people at her ivy league college assumed she was an affirmative action admit.
She was black and poor.  
Then she started walking around campus with her stuy T-shirt, her high school t shirt, at an ivy league campus.
Instant credibility.

In my experience it confirms other signals that you are smart and makes you easier to hire.  It frequently buys you some plot armor in much the same way that an ivy degree buys you career plot armor.[/quote]

That's a single example and it relates to a young adult starting out. That is not what this thread is about. Let's look at it another way:

I know several ivy league grads and their career path is entirely ho-hum and they are not doing well financially. I also know plenty of ivy league grads whose career paths have taken off and their accomplishments are impressive. Do you think I'm looking at these combined ivy league grads as a single group and feel impressed? Would you be impressed by them all? Would you hire someone who went to Stuy/TJ/an ivy if, in the 10 years since they graduated, they kinda floundered?  [/quote]

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