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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, it took me until a couple of years after my graduation from a supposedly prestigious institution to realize how much LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION actually matters in terms of getting a good job.  If your dream is to end up working as a corporate executive at Disney, then get yourself to a good school in Florida, preferably one where you can intern at Disney.  if you want to work in Hollywood, presumably the best thing to do would be to go to school in California and do the internships, etc.

Certainly that's true in DC.  Students who walk into a job the day after graduation are often the ones from Georgetown, GWU, George Mason, etc.

Part of the appeal of Stanford is that it's located near Silicon Valley.

I think that the appeal of someplace like Bowdoin or Dartmouth is going to lessen.  Particularly those small niche LACs that honestly no one outside your small circle even recognizes.  When we first moved to the DC suburbs, I was amazed at how people are like "Oh my god.  he went to Tech!" and who haven't even heard of Grinnell, Bennington, etc.  I don't think that many of those names on the resumes are nearly as magical as you all think they are. 
Again, a lot of people would rather hire the proximity person from GMU that interned in the office and who they know over someone who writes really well from a small school in the midwest.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd focus on schools that offered proximity and a strong alumni network.  (And yeah, the strong network is not often connected to the most prestigious school.  Boy do folks from Clemson seem to love their school and others from their school.  Might buy you more than a degree from Mt. Holyoke)
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