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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd say grants and publications matter a lot more in academia than school. It doesn't follow you as it does in law school.[/quote]

It decisively matters up front - [b]you are highly unlikely to get a tenure-track job in the first place if you did not attend a top school[/b].

After you get hired, you are expected to perform (get grants, get published) but to do that you have to get hired in the first place.

The advice for would-be PhDs is the same as for would-be lawyers: top ten schools place 100% of their graduates, graduates of the next couple of dozen schools have to scramble, and graduates of the bottom 75% of the schools basically have no hope whatsoever of employment in academia (these schools are a scam and their PhD programs should be shut down).[/quote]

+1000 There are not enough tenure track positions for the number of PhD graduates in most fields.  Top tier graduates often have to accept jobs at 2nd tier schools and 2nd tier graduates fight for positions at 3rd tier schools.  [/quote]
Yep, this is totally true. When DH was on the job market, he kept making comments about what schools placed people who got their doctorates from which institutions. I thought it was just self-depreciation, but after being a faculty spouse for a while, I recognize the frequency and immediacy of these conversations.

But the world of academia is weird. :)[/quote]

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