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"until very recently, american companies hired new grads basically off the US News rankings. top 20 school? you got invited to interview at Google, JP Morgan, and McKinsey. number 50 school? there was a job for you. number 400 school? there was a job for you too -- just less prestigious than the one at the top 50 school.

the brand of a top 20 degree is still high. those graduates still get looks. the network is dense and the admissions filter is real. a Stanford degree opens more doors. a less prestigious state-school degree does not.
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below 20, the system does not work anymore. there is now almost no difference between a #35 school and a #350 school in the eyes of a recruiter. the brand completely collapsed and most parents and students have not been told yet.[/b]

Of course it is true. Unless you come from a super connected family, you'd better go to a school in the top 20 (the 20 or so that MBB and other top companies target, not necessarily us news):

8 Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Chicago, JHU
CalTEch, Northwestern. That's the top 15, not in that order.

Which of these is in the next 5 is debatable:
 UCB, Rice, WashU, CMU, UCLA, UMich, Vanderbilt, ND, WAS, Georgetown, UVA, Emory....

That is already 27 and getting borderline.

The dropoff is quite steep after that group.

[/quote] You have 7 SLACS which get equal or better results than anything below the top 5 for IB and MBB and another 5 which hang with the group outside of Ivy+. You've got public flagships which do well especially in CS and Engineering. You have 5 Canadian schools which can bang with this crew as well. I know what he was trying to say but prestige goes much further than the top 35 and the overall crux of the article makes is sound like it was written by some clueless tool in Silicon Valley. I worked in tech leadership roles at three of the Mag7 and I can tell you than nobody cares about the app that you vibe coded.[/quote]

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