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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cornell is the obvious choice. Many top firms including Ibanks, mbb consulting do not even look at applications from average schools like Michigan[/quote]

I picture you, PP, looking like either Andy or Angela from The Office, dressed much the same way as you probably did in 1989, all in khaki and Brooks Brothers and showily expensive shoes, still prattling on to anyone who will listen about ivy league schools even though you're in your 40s or 50s.

For the record, lots of "top firms" recruit from the most selective of the public universities, including Michigan, UCLA, Cal, and UT Austin, and the "top firms" that don't will continue to cultivate their country-club talent pool while the rest of us skate on in to the future. The kids who attend public universities like Michigan are often just as smart and motivated as the ones who attend your preferred handful of preppy schools, but they wanted a bigger fishtank, or they weren't legacies, or they needed to use DC TAG, or they didn't have Mommy and Daddy help them build a nonprofit when they were 12, or they (God forbid) hadn't developed a "passion" by age 17, or they just didn't manage to win the admissions lottery. Few do, yet most manage to survive.[/quote]

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