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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love bottom rung morons who repeat that “college only matters for your first job” nonsense. Your college remains on your resume for 40 to 50 years. Yale is going to pop off your resume when you’re job hopping in your 30s and 40s and the selection committee internally refers to you as the “Yale guy.” Only folks who went to bottom rung colleges think credential prestige doesn’t matter past age 22 — and you all don’t really even believe it, you just wish it was true.[/quote]

Most jobs do not ask about your [b]college resume[/b] after you have work experience (ie. a first real job out of college).  What matters after first job is references from previous jobs and what you did at those job(s). So other than the possible connections you use to get an interview, yes, nobody really cares about where you went to college after that (minus a few industries like banking and PE). 
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Y[b]our school is always listed on your cv.  They won't look at your transcript, sure.  But the school and the degree is always there.[/b]  And it matters.[/quote]

I have a Junior so am reading a lot on this board. This comment just above was almost an epiphany for me. Yes, it is so true that forevermore the schools your kid attends will be listed on their resume. I mean, I am 54 and my undergrad and graduate schools are still listed. We may not like it but in some sense school name recognition may really matter for years to come. It may not be a make-or-break thing in one's career trajectory, but it does calculate into that first-impressions type of way. I can not deny that it does.

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