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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These posts are evergreens on a forum like this. It's wishful thinking, and frankly straight-up naive, to assume that going to a more prestigious grad school completely minimizes the undergrad experience. When you are at your separate college reunions, believe me, you are not "all the same". A prestigious undergrad is [b]cachet that lasts a lifetime.[/quote][/b]
WYKYK.[/quote]

Disagree. In law, no one cares where you went for undergrad. I went to a SLAC whose reputation has been sliding downhill for some time. But I was no 1 in the class so that got me into all T5 law schools. That has cachet. I go to those reunions. I went to one college reunion and it was so lame and boring that I've nevef been back. Same is true of undergrad when you go on to med school. You leave that behind[/quote]

Let's face it - a major reason people pursue graduate degrees is to compensate for a degree from a lower-ranked undergraduate institution and/or having earned a degree in a soft major. Of course, certain professions, like law and medicine, require graduate school regardless of where the undergraduate degree was earned. That said, I disagree with the idea that your undergraduate degree doesn’t matter. Having elite degrees from both undergraduate and graduate schools is much more impressive - I don't think anyone would disagree with that.[/quote]

No one who is hiring people out of grad schools cares. And a few years after you’re out, no one cares (much) about the grad school either.

This forum is extremely funny, because you get to watch adults who are oblivious to the modern workplace argue passionately about the deep importance of where ages 18-22 are spent. And it’s sad. But mostly funny.[/quote]

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