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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, I've had intern and job experiences roll out the red carpet for me with my HYS degrees. Application pools that had closed were magically reopened when people saw the school name. It was more important early in my career than after a decade or so, when work experience becomes more important.

Would I want my kids to go there? Many years away, but I wouldn't want them to overwork themselves in high school just for that opportunity. If they did get in, great for them, but I don't want them to feel so much pressure in high school to be the best at everything. It's not work sacrificing health when the odds of admittance are so slim. I'm not a big donor, so I doubt they'd get any legacy edge.

As a supervisor and hiring manager, I've had the best luck with Stanford, Yale, and Princeton grads in that order, which may have to do with the relative strengths of the particular undergrad programs related to my field (at the nexus of science and social science). Don't get many applications from MIT, so can't compare. Of the dozen or so Harvard grads that I've hired and supervised over the years, well over half looked good on paper and interviewed well but wanted to coast through the job and rest on their laurels. I'm more wary of hiring from Harvard. By contrast, some of my hardest and most committed staff members have been state school grads. [/quote]

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