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[quote=Anonymous]"But the world was not my oyster coming from Big State U because many employers that open doors, like Wall Street or consulting, wouldn’t give me an interview, despite my top grades. That’s my point. The name brand DOES matter because the UMC people doing the hiring believe that wherever you go to school, that was the best you could do."

It isn't really about just brand names or schools that are household names. Everyone knows the schools that play D1 football or basketball on TV and in bowl games, but only a few of those schools will cause people to assume that you're smart or sharp just because you graduated from there. A school that nobody has heard of like Bryn Mawr is going to open lots more doors than TCU. It sounds like and is in fact a "snooty East Coast woman's school" where rich professional types send their smart daughters. People will give a Bryn Mawr grad the benefit of the doubt with respect to how smart and qualified she is for a position or a spot in a competitive grad program. Meanwhile, the top TCU grads have to show that they spent their four years doing something other than attending horned frog football games with evangelical randos from Texas.

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