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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, no one is getting jobs now…[/quote]

No. [b]Only top school students are getting the good jobs. The unemployment rate for ivies is much lower than for T30s, [/b]and the salary of first job has stayed roughly the same or slight drop at ivy/stanford while it is down at T30 and below.
Companies are going to their target schools for job hires more than ever. School reputation and rigor is more important than ever. [/quote]

Data for this please.  Or are you pulling it out of your a$$?[/quote]

Not PP, who probably chose not to respond based on how crudely you posed your query. But this has been the subject of multiple articles lately, so it's been in everyone's news feed in some form.

https://fortune.com/2026/01/06/recruiting-college-isnt-dead-top-schools-not-talent-is-everywhere/
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It is frustrating in some sense as three to four years ago companies were looking far outside of the targets. Now that TO is gone at almost all top schools, plus the poor economy, top schools carry more weight the next 5-10 yrs[/quote]

True.  When it is easier to hire, i.e. hundreds to thousands applying for every job, hiring managers use easy signifiers to winnow down the field and college name/rank is chief among the factors.  They will also revert to network hiring to avoid getting inundated with applications.   [b]My kid is at an Ivy and the outreach/jobs only advertised to these students is a bit shocking.[/b]  [/quote]

Yes. Same. It is jaw dropping sometimes. [/quote]

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