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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This heavily depends on the kind of job you're hiring for. In finance, a Northwestern and Directional State School degree will absolutely NOT be perceived the same. Even a Northwestern and Harvard degree will be grouped differently. [/quote]

Agree with this.

My Ivy sophomore (non-Econ/non-Business) came in last month and swooped up a PE internship for this summer, and HS classmates at flagships who've been looking since Sept are still struggling. Most are resolved to do a regular summer job.[/quote]
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