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[quote=Anonymous]If you go to grad school (law, medicine, PhD), it probably doesn't matter. At least, I don't care to argue with all of the "I went to a dinky Christian 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-millions-recruiting-on-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]

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