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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A top school can open doors for you early on but at the end of the day it’s how you perform that counts. My first job was very MBA oriented with most from Harvard, Stanford etc. I was from a tier 2 MBA program. Many of them flamed out while I did very well. [/quote]

No way can someone sit in a conference room and say, a ha, that must be the Harvard MBA because he's so smart and that other person must have gone to a lower school because they don't think as well. We all know people from top schools who never got anywhere close to reaching their career and personal goals.[/quote]

I share the following on many similar threads of this kind.

Read or watch Malcolm Gladwell's talk about the research that shows the TOP THIRD of students of ANY school are the ones you want to hire...

He says to be a "big fish in a little pond" is better for students.

https://www.businessinsider.com/malcolm-gladwells-david-and-goliath-2013-10?op=1

And this will shock some some people:

"Bender was succeeded as the dean of admissions at Harvard by Fred Glimp, who, Karabel tells us, had a particular concern with academic underperformers. “Any class, no matter how able, will always have a bottom quarter,” Glimp once wrote. “What are the effects of the psychology of feeling average, even in a very able group? Are there identifiable types with the psychological or what—not tolerance to be “happy’ or to make the most of education while in the bottom quarter?” Glimp thought it was critical that the students who populated the lower rungs of every Harvard class weren’t so driven and ambitious that they would be disturbed by their status. “Thus the renowned (some would say notorious) Harvard admission practice known as the “happy-bottom-quarter’ policy was born,” Karabel writes.

This can be seen in Harvard's PRL formula - an index designed to help sort applicants based on their potential for success. A high PRL that looks sound is almost guaranteed to get in, while a lower PRL needs something else to help them along. That could be a background that calls the PRL's accuracy into question, or extracurriculars like art and athletics that indicate they will provide non-academic value to the college and student body. And, if they can be happy with their college experience even if they fall in the bottom quartile, then they effectively make things easier for their classmates."[/quote]

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