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[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]

If you worked for a [b]prestigious investment bank, law firm or consulting firm[/b], 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]

So what you are saying is that IF you aspire to work at a "prestigious investment bank, law firm, or consulting firm" it matters where you go. That is a far cry from an elite school brand mattering for everyone. And, for a law firm, as I understand from friends in the field, it really just matters where you went to law school, not undergrad. So, really it's just if you want to work in IB or elite consulting. Why do you think everyone should want to work in those two fields? It's a big world out there! [/quote]

Of course. But some poster is trying to claim that the university “doesn’t matter” because she found 3 people on LinkedIn who work for McKinsey and attended podunk U. This is a nonsensical claim and show a fundamental lack of understanding about how the world works and elites maintain their status. [/quote]

I think most people get this. It seems to me that in many prior discussion of whether or not school brand matters, people carve out the IB/consulting exception as particularly elite-brand focused.

One of my friend's families is a good example IMO of choosing the college that matters for a particular kid's goals. Dad is an Ivy grad (undergrad) and a doctor (state U medical school). Mom is a state U grad, helps run his practice. Their oldest wanted to go into IB (based on example from his uncle who does that) so he went to an Ivy (legacy). He's now graduated and does in fact work in IB. 2nd wants computer science and goes to a big state U known for strength in that. 3rd wants to be a doctor. She's going to the local state U that has a good biology program, volunteering with dad at the local hospital. Each is at the right school to support their goals. [/quote]

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