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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kind of employer who knows Davidson is the kind of employer that DD should pursue. Undoubtedly, it'll be more prestigious and the people that she'll be working with will be running around in more elite circles than those who have only heard of schools like Penn State. Harsh, but true.[/quote]

I hate this mentality. Your resume will first be reviewed by a recruiter who probably went to a big state school and was in a sorority. It doesn’t matter if your eventual boss knows your school, if the sorority girl doesn’t pass you along, [b]you’ll never have the chance to do an interview.[/b][/quote]

I think most people think the school brand is far more important than it really is. Sure, big time consulting, finance have their target schools. But for most jobs IME, it's what you did at school, not the name. I regularly hire and I don't much care where someone went to school. Basically, if a college is good enough to end up in the Princeton or Fiske guide that's going to be good enough and that's been the case everywhere I've worked. I look at the the projects they did in their classes, the research, the internships (and I hire interns and still don't care about the college).

I've had interns, full-time direct reports, and coworkers from Ivys, big state Us, LACs, and served on interview panels for different roles. I see good performers and the occasional meh one from all types of schools. The only time the school name raises a note to probe in interviews is I'm more alert for an entitlement attitude when interviewing Ivy students. I've had some issues with that in the past so it's something I keep an eye out for.  [/quote]

My DC went to an often-maligned-on-DCUM LAC and made the most of her time there with research, internships, etc., and is doing very well now at a well-known company earning a good income and enjoying the friendships from college.

It's about who you are and what you've done.  [/quote]

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