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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Undergrad prestige does NOT matter. At all. It’s been empirically proven. Smart kids do well anywhere, whether they’re at UMD or Stanford.

Dale and Kruger. Dale and Kruger. Dale and Kruger!!![/quote]

UMD, perhaps, but what about Frostburg State vs. Stanford?[/quote]

Take a look at where the CEOs of top US companies went.

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/business/

It's the individual that matters, not the college they attended.[/quote]

Prestige schools are highly OVER-represented in business, law, finance, academia, so the college matters.[/quote]

If prestige schools are over-represented, it's because they've had first pick of high school students who are already highly accomplished and ridiculously smart, not because those who have succeeded needed the prestige college in order to be successful.[/quote]

Its because grad schools and popular employers have thousands of resumes from students who have all excelled as under grads and the easiest cut to make is the quality of the school. The only exception is law school where GPA + LSAT matter more than the school, but graduates from prestigious law schools are massively over represented in big law and federal judgeships (Harvard and Yale have 8 seats on the Supreme Court between them)[/quote]

Supreme Court justices are appointed, not hired.

And we're not talking about law schools anyway. Kruger and Dale looked at undergrad only, and the results can only speak to that.[/quote]

And the experiences that put them in a position to be appointed largely go to graduates of a very small handful of schools (Harvard and Yale undergraduate degrees also constitute a majority of the court). The same is true on wall street, in consulting, and even in big tech. [/quote]

That study cannot carry the weight that you think it does.  [/quote]

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