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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was at a career day and a kid asked me how much rank of school matters.

I told him what I believe, that it matters a little bit, especially earlier in your career and all other things being equal, but it doesn’t matter as as much as people think it does and especially later in your career no one even knows that I went to a top school.

Also, if a bright kid who is at a high ranked school can’t look me in the eye or socialize with me normally or express why they want this job over others, and I don’t wanna spend the summer with them, they’re not getting the internship.[/quote]

It totally depend on the person’s major/field. STEM it matters the least. Humanities/polysci/history/psych/english, etc., it matters a lot.[/quote]

[b]Reputation matters, more or less depending on field,[/b] but I think the myth is that there is a firm, ordinal ranking like USNWR perpetuates (e.g. Princeton > Stanford because USNWR has them 1 and 4 respectively).   I don't think it is that defined and rigid in the minds of recruiters and those in positions of influence.

In my field, high tech, school literally never comes up at this point in my career.  [/quote]

Reputation can also be highly regional and industry specific. Like, Procter & Gamble loves University of Cincinnati students (they have a relationship with them for coops). Or tech companies in the Bay Area recruit heavily from San Jose State. [/quote]

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