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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work for an international company (non-US based) with offices all over the world.  Worked with people from all over.  I would take a kid from a top 30 US university over any others any day.  That admission process you do not like is what makes people better executives.

Would I hire someone in US that went to one of those places?  Sure.  But no leg up and maybe a bias outside of DC and NY against.  [/quote]

You're everything that's wrong with the American undergrad system.

When excellent students get rejected from top universities, you end up hiring from a smaller pool of potentially great candidates. The people who knock on your door are the academically strong students accepted by top schools. You're not seeing, or you're perhaps rejecting, the academically strong that were passed over in favor of someone with an "interesting" profile, because that someone with an interesting profile isn't going to be successful enough to come and apply at your company.

You're shooting yourself in the foot, basically.

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PP here.  I don't run the American undergrad system.  I am a consumer.  And I have 20 years of seeing college graduates going through executive training programs.  I prefer kids from US colleges.  I said top 30 above but it is broader than that.  LACs also.  Great regionals as well.  More well rounder students in the US.  Sorry if that does not fit your belief.  Do we hire people from UK universities in Europe, sure.  Are there great people in our company from them, sure.  You get a better product out of the US.  [/quote]

I agree with you. K-12 education is generally sub-par in the US but the US does a good job with college education. The cost is insane but it is a good product compared with most countries. [/quote]

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