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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In some fields, if you want a job -- you need to go to a top-ranked school to even get an interview. In these tough economic times -- it is best to go to the highest ranked school you can get into.[/quote]

This is truly terrible advice.  What you do in college has a lot more to do with your future than where you went.  Almost nobody hires people for their pedigree anymore.  People get hired for what they can do.  Now a lot of top individuals go to top schools, but it's not the brand name that puts a shine on them, it's their character, the same character that probably got them into the school to start with.

In these economic times, employers know that not everybody can afford an expensive top school.  Many top students are now in state schools.  Employers want to hire the best, not the most privileged.[/quote]

which is why Princeton history majors that have never touched excel ever get positions at Goldman in M&A and IBD which is heavily excel modeling intensive while a finance major at UMD who can run a DCF and other valuation models RARELY if ever gets a shot a it.

Your advice is shit for non-stem, high finance/strategy consulting places.

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My advice was hardly "shit" (in your oddly offensive choice of terms).

Out of curiosity, I went to look and see where the top executives of Goldman Sachs went to undergrad.  A couple of them did not list their undergrad degree, but the others were decidedly non-top brand names.  The schools included University of Texas, Pace, American, University of Rome, Chicago, Boston College, and NYU.  Paulson went to Harvard, but he was one of the few Ivy Leaguers ( although a few had Wharton MBAs).  These are the cream of the crop and I suspect their success has more to do with what they can do, not which brand-name degree is on the wall.

The advice to go to the "highest ranking" school you can is more like the "shit" of which you speak.  And don't get me started on starting out life $200,000 in debt chasing that brass degree.[/quote]

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