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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who hires, the NW kid has my attention a lot more than UMD.   I don’t care one bit about honors college. [/quote]

As someone who also hires, I don't care if it's NW, UMD, UMD Honors, Harvard, or Directional State School. I want to see good candidates who took advantage of opportunities to work with professors, participate in relevant activities outside the classroom, etc. I've hired great recent grads from no-name schools and great recent grads from top 10 (and have also had entry level folks from top 10 schools who ended up being a disappointment!). Also, once you're past your first job, no one cares what college you went to, unless you're in a field where prestige/rubbing elbows with the elites matters. [/quote]

I don’t know exactly what a Directional State School is - sounds bad - but if you hire you know very well those resumes don’t even make it past HR to get on your desk when you are hiring for significant jobs. For engineering, UMD honors and Northwestern are a wash. Both very good, and hopefully the HR department knows that. But for everything else, Northwestern grads are going to get the first look and make it past all the gate checks.[/quote]

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