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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think so much of this depends on your field.  I went to strong state U for both undergrad and grad (different schools in different states) and have had a solid career in marketing research.  If I'd wanted to go into a big name management consulting firm then, sure, the college brand would probably matter a lot more but I wasn't interested in doing that.  I've been in my field for 20 yrs.  Nobody cares where I went to school, never comes up.  They do care about the firms I've worked at and the clients I've had.  My first job out of undergrad was at a now well-known firm and I got it in large part because of the research project I did as my senior capstone at State U.

I hire interns for my firm now and the strongest ones over the past few years have been from big state U's.  I've hired a couple from Ivy's and while they are very smart they have been weaker on the interpersonal skills.  One, a Penn grad, got all pissy about having to do menial grunt-work stuff that she didn't think she should have to do because she went to Penn (seriously, she said that to me, her supervisor!).  I've met plenty of lovely Penn and other Ivy grads and have great friends who went to Ivys, but as a hiring manager I do now come at interviewing Ivy grads with a particular focus on screening for that egotistical attitude.  It definitely exists at the "Tier 1" schools to a greater degree than at Big State U.

I work with people from a wide range of schools, both undergrad and grad and I think what you do with the opportunities you have while you are at school matters a lot more than the specific name brand.  [/quote]

There is a school of thought that graduates of "good, but not elite," big state schools actually make better low/mid level employees than grads of elite schools. They are used to being a number, getting work done with minimal personal attention from supervisors and have a lower sense of entitlement. [/quote]

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