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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
are you saying that prestigious banking and consulting firms recruit at longwood like they do at Priceton or even UVA? [/quote]

I got degrees from two top name brand schools (BA and MBA) and got hired at one of those prestigious consulting firms.  I stayed just long enough that I woudn't be required to repay my relocation benefit, then bailed for a small startup.

The values I saw demonstrated at the consulting firm were nothing that I'd ever want to be associated with (e.g consultants who weren't being monitored at a client site logging in at 8:00 then locking their PCs and going to play golf for the day; a lady who let her cat -- probably the most meaningful relationship in her life -- die because should wouldn't interrupt her 5 day a week travel schedule to take it to the vet; my immediate supervisor on a client project having a very public extramarital affair while he also talked to his wife constantly on a speakerphone about how busy he was and how he couldn't make it home for the weekend to see his kids; bookshelves full of printed deliverables at a client site that were really just boilerplate templates with zero actual information added; partners getting on a conference call with prospective clients then after all clients said they had dropped off proceeding to trash everything about the client, not knowing that the client had just muted their line).

Basically in my experience name brand consulting firms are like name brand schools  -- for many people, they are a crutch for people unable to excel on their own merits.  That's not to say that there aren't brilliant people at both, but there are a lot of hangers-on who hope the luster of the name will attach to them and obsure their own mediocrity.

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