Reply to How do Americans view universities abroad such as McGill, St Andrews, or similar?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "How do Americans view universities abroad such as McGill, St Andrews, or similar?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work for an international company (non-US based) with offices all over the world.  Worked with people from all over.  I would take a kid from a top 30 US university over any others any day.  That admission process you do not like is what makes people better executives.

Would I hire someone in US that went to one of those places?  Sure.  But no leg up and maybe a bias outside of DC and NY against.  [/quote]

You're everything that's wrong with the American undergrad system.

When excellent students get rejected from top universities, you end up hiring from a smaller pool of potentially great candidates. The people who knock on your door are the academically strong students accepted by top schools. You're not seeing, or you're perhaps rejecting, the academically strong that were passed over in favor of someone with an "interesting" profile, because that someone with an interesting profile isn't going to be successful enough to come and apply at your company.

You're shooting yourself in the foot, basically.

[/quote]

You are only correct if you think getting good grades = good employee.  I don’t think that is necessarily true. Some of the reasons the other kid is l”interesting” are the qualities that will make that kid excel in a workplace later—or maybe start their own business.  Grades and test scores really aren’t everything.[/quote]

NP. What "other reasons?" Reasons like having parents who went there or made a huge donation or hired a criminal like Rick Singer or had their kid waste years becoming elite in an irrelevant idiotic niche sport for posh people like fencing? If that is how you're picking people who are good employees, your company culture is set up for something all right, but merit ain't it and you've probably twisted the process so much you actually have no idea what you might be missing. And before you cite "international company with offices all over" at me again as if it makes you some final authority, there are well-run companies like that and there are poorly-run companies like that. Deutsche Bank, for example. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics