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On one hand, I think I benefited early on from being “top student at a good school” vs “good student at a top school.”  Also, on the employer’s side of the interview table, I feel the “top student at a good school” makes the stronger impression (I work in academia, so this may be field-dependent). 
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Of all the career paths where going to the top school matters, academia is the one where it matters the most.[/quote]

Not really. The most important factor in early career academic employment is the quality of the dissertation.  Do students at higher ranked schools write better dissertations?  Yes, on average, but that has more to do with the individual (and the thesis advisor) than the school.

Beyond the first job (in STEM, usually a temporary position), it’s the quality of the work that matters.  Tenure track hiring decisions are difficult and high-stakes (the goal is to hire a colleague who will stay for their whole career), so the role played by the name of the degree-granting institution is very small. The undergraduate institution is basically irrelevant at that point.

I don’t have experience with many other fields, but in academia there is no analogue of the hiring managers I hear about who are only willing to recruit from 3 or 4 Ivy League schools.

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