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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Absolute nonsense. I hire many graduates every year. The idea that they are divided into some kind of caste system based on where they went to college is simply ludicrous. Of course we have a vague ranking of the different universities, but your personality, experience, interests, and individual accomplishments count for more. And of course, once you are in the door no one gives a crap where you went to university.[/quote]

Exactly. The position means everything, and for McKinsey you need to be a client-facing consultant to have the real McKinsey experience and pedigree. McKinsey mainly hires from very few schools for undergrad: 7 ivies (not much Cornell), Stanford, MIT, Duke, and Northwestern. Certain state schools also have solid placement (mainly the top 5 state schools) but it’s very competitive at those schools since they have more students on campus looking for those positions.

If you worked for a prestigious investment bank, law firm or consulting firm, you’d understand this a little better. Yes, many smaller companies who aren’t going to attract the best anyway won’t focus on top schools. Why bother when those graduates don’t want to work for you anyway? Kids from Princeton aren’t typically working along side kids from no name schools.

McKinsey isn’t recruiting at Penn State or Syracuse.  Those schools are fine in many ways but if you want every door open, school prestige matters. [/quote]

A simple search on LinkedIn proves you wrong.[/quote]

I’m not sure why you keep insisting on something you know nothing about. Those of us who have worked for these employers know where they recruit and which are “priority” schools. It’s possible a talented individual who attended JMU is during their career is eventually hired by McKinsey but they are not showing up to recruit like they are at Princeton. [/quote]

Recruiting only at elite colleges is not the same as hiring only from those colleges. It's just more efficient to look in the places that have a high concentration of really smart people. It's not the prestige of the school that matters, it's that those schools have tons of very capable students. Would they really turn down the opportunity to interview Google co-founder Sergei Brin (Maryland) or NVIDIA co-founder Jensen Huang (Oregon State) if they sent an inquiry or had professors with connections to McKinsey saying they need to look at this person?

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Oh, and I just did that LinkedIn search. Between Penn State and Syracuse, McKinsey has 200 employees. They may not recruit at those schools, but they're certainly hiring from them.[/quote]

I am not trying to wade into this battle, but McKinsey has over 10,000 employees...many of which are not client-facing.  Funny enough, I know someone who graduated from Syracuse that works at McKinsey but not as a consultant.  This person helps with their global media strategies.[/quote][/quote]

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