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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And people do care where you got your degree especially at top companies and academia.[/quote]

People in academia care where you get your degree, but 99% their caring about this is evaluating where you did your PhD and postdoc.  Undergrad doesn't really matter that much.  I see faculty candidates all the time who went to regional schools for their undergrad and then Caltech/Berkeley/Harvard whatever for PhD who are plenty competitive.  I don't know that there is any particular edge to the person who attended a more prestigious school even when you have two candidates, say, where one went to Harvard for undergrad and the other went to, say, a SUNY school but both went to Caltech for their PhD--at that point it's going to depend on their graduate record (publications, rec letters, etc.) and whether or not they are the right fit for the department.[/quote]

Not true. Graduate admissions committees DO care where you did your undergrad. You are [b]more likely[/b] to get into a highly competitive grad program if you went to a high prestige / highly competitive undergrad school (in other words, not GMU or JMU).

Yes, [b]there are exceptions[/b], but if you are planning on an academic career you'd better go prestige school all the way.[/quote]

Are you the arrogant "prestige only" poster that we've all been mocking?  If so, what you're saying is utter B.S.  It's been noted over and over that many JMU grads (and probably GMU as well) go on to top grad schools.  You're clearly full of yourself and your career in academia, but interestingly, most people have no desire to go down that path.[/quote]

[b]If you are a JMU grad, you are a poor advertisement for them based on your lack of reading comprehension.[/b]

Note the bolded "more likely" and "there are exceptions" qualifiers. Yes, [i]some [/i]JMU and GMU grads have gone to top grad schools. But if you think they are [i]equally likely [/i]to do so as, say, Stanford or Ivy grads, then you are deeply stupid and mistaken.

Most people have no desire to go down the academic path. Good! There are too many people in it already, and that's why it is very, very hard to get a full-time, tenured job these days. But if you do go down the academic path, you had better have a high-prestige graduate degree -- and a high-prestige undergrad degree will help you to get that. Hate it all you want, that is the simple reality.[/quote]

JMU is not a research university. Even UVA is lacking in that regard compared to other well known state schools such as Michigan, Berkeley, Wisconsin, etc. I am still waiting for the stats that backs up the claim that many JMU grads go on to top graduate schools.[/quote]

Funny, were still waiting for the state that say they don't...

Signed,

JMU Alum and UVa Law Grad...and remembers JMU well represented there....[/quote]

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