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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think the ivy's open as many doors as people think they do.  Yes, if you want to clerk for a Supreme Court Justice, you need an ivy degree.  If you want to work for a white shoe law firm, not necessarily.  I went to a good college and average law school and I was able to get a job at a large firm b/c I got really good grades in law school.  Consulting firms etc are trying to be more open minded than they used to.  My really successful friends went to all kinds of different schools.[/quote]

I’m Black.  In my very small graduate program, each of the 4-5 classes that I knew well had 1 Black student per class. Each one of us graduated from HYP. That is likely not a coincidence. One of the things that HYP can do is serve as a shortcut for hiring managers and admissions committees trying to decide which very small number of POC will be taken seriously as candidates who “fit”.  In my case, I’m sure that my undergrad degree made it easier for my grad school to seriously consider me as a candidate.  In my case, it means that some of the doors that would have been closed to me cracked open just enough for me to be seriously considered. It makes the difference between difficult and impossible.

tldr: Whether or not Ivys “open doors” likely has a lot to do with what doors would have been open in the first place. For those of us with very few available open doors, it can be a significant factor: the difference between difficult and impossible. [/quote]

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