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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’ve said this many times.  It doesn’t matter where you go to school if you are charismatic, a hard worker and can network.   My husband is one of those people.  You never heard of his college.   He’s a people person and thrives in social business meetings over dinner or drinks.

He is every bit as smart as me even though he went to a community college and a no name school.  You heard of my college.  No one asks either of us where we went to college now.  No one cares about your degree after your first job. [/quote]

I think the Top 25 still have a lock on placing into investment banking and PE. My kid is at one of the 150+ ranked institutions OP mentions and was hired by one of the firms he mentioned, but not in IB.

He hopes to work his way into PE or IB from within his employer’s ranks, or after B School. He was not able to get into a top school because he was an immature goof off in high school, like a lot of other boys. He’s every bit as smart as the kids at the top schools - he was just lazy in HS.

He wised up and worked his ass off to land his prestigious job. He treated his intern search - from freshman year on - as another class, and ended up spending more time on the search than anything else in college, because it was that important to him.

His goof of skills also morphed into amazing social skills. He is a pleasure to be with, looks people in the eye, has a firm handshake, and networks like crazy.

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