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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Let's be honest.. if you have an applicant from MIT and one from UMD, you would look at the MIT applicant first.”
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Also that there are a few schools where if you tell people you went there it automatically communicates “very smart”: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT.

In my view the differentiation after that tippy top signaling school group is not that huge but yes there are bands of perceived “smartness” associated with other schools too like UVA signals smarter than GMU or VCU on a resume. Now maybe the kid from the latter two interviews great and is actually smarter and able to do a better job. But in a pile of resumes with kids from all 3 schools thr UVA one is likely to get a closer look. [/quote]

There’s some truth to this but it’s only one piece of a resume. If the UMD kid has a better GPA and more relevant internships than the MIT kid, I’m not necessarily looking at the MIT first. Ditto for the GMU kid versus the UVA kid. The whole package matters.

One area where the MITs and UVAs excel over the others is with on-campus recruiting. But even then, there are several dozen schools that will get companies to show up to recruit. Goldman recruits at Indiana. MBB at Texas A&M. And so on.[/quote]

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