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[quote=Anonymous]None of this matters that much.

What matters is what you do in college to prepare for life after it - and I don't mean grades. Internships, volunteering, setting yourself up to find that first job.

I went to a small liberal arts school on the west coast that most east coasters haven't heard of. Between the ages of 25 and 50, I've probably hired over 100 people for very desirable jobs - Capitol Hill, political and policy work -- and the college someone went to never mattered to me.

In fact, because I was a west coast girl, I didn't know enough in my first decade to be impressed by UVA and William & Mary. UVA might as well have been the University of Tennessee, and William & Mary / Franklin & Marshall could've been the same level of prestige as far as I knew.

I'm sure someone will say I was an idiot for not fawning over the UVA applicants, but really, I cared more about how much work experience you had in the field, references from employers or intern supervisors, and the interview. I hired good people from Yale and UVA. But I also hired great people from schools like the University of Oregon, JMU, and Wittenberg. And I'd never even heard of JMU or Wittenberg until I hired those people![/quote]

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