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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you go to grad school (law, medicine, PhD), your undergrad probably doesn't matter. At least, I don't care to argue with all of the "I went to a dinky no-name school and then Hopkins med school and I turned out fine!" posters here.

But for everyone else, the name of the game is on-campus recruiting.

Many of us are too old to really understand the importance of OCR; in my day it was fairly optional unless you are going into certain fields like i-banking or consulting.

But now it is much more important; jobs that are offered through OCR simply aren't offered to the general public or even to students outside of a small number of chosen schools.

Tech firm A may recruit at both School X and School Y, but the School X positions may be core engineering positions while the School Y ones are support positions at a regional office.

OCR is important in tech, finance, management consulting and other fields. See this (highly critical) HBR article for how it works: https://hbr.org/2015/10/firms-are-wasting-mil...-only-a-few-campuses

Yes, where you go to school absolutely does matter if you're not going to be a doctor, lawyer or professor - the vast majority of kids; including the vast majority of those who intend to be doctors, lawyers or professors (those fields have a nasty cut).[/quote]

I cannot disagree more and ironically I feel that if you do want to be a Doc, lawyer, prof, you best go to an undergrad that will lead you to a solid grad school because you will absolutely need pedigree in those fields to make it.

Campus recruiting is everywhere now.  I used to be a campus recruiter so I know!  Once upon a time, you would only find Accenture and Deloitte at top 10 schools.  But you can attain a great career even with a 2nd tier professional services firm who also recruit at the same places as Big 4.  Moreover, you can pretty much find many many companies of all sizes and reputations approach campus recruiting at almost every school that has a name.  There's just too many positions too fill and too many opportunities at various schools for one company to focus on the "top" schools.  Keep in mind as well that the competition at those "top" schools are very high.  Your kid is not just going to automatically get hired because recruiters from that company are there.  They have to go through a robust interview process and everyone at that school just as great as your kid is also competing for a spot.

I would not worry about campus recruiting as it relates to how quickly a kid gains employment nor whether their career will take off or not based on whether they were drafted out of school upon graduation.  This is what is wrong with parents.  They really need to relax.  There are SO many opportunities and I don't even mean with companies offering 9-5 work.  There are so many career paths avail to this generation of kids that the more important question is where they are comfortable, will learn what they need/want to learn and whether they are mentally well adjusted upon graduation to determine their own path.[/quote]

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