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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the posts are about VA schools. UVA is a very good school. Would you make your kid go to UMD if they got into Michigan, Tufts, Wake Forest, Carnegie Mellon or other top 30 schools? I think that where you go to college stays with you the rest of your life. Every time you give a presentation and you’re introduced your education is usually mentioned. Throughout your life probably thousands of people will ask you. Whether we like it or not, people make judgements about you based on this, whether it’s a potential employer or love interest.[/quote]

I'm a female executive at an IT company and I speak all the time at conferences and events in the DC area. I'm never ever introduced and my college mentioned. Never. I went to UMASS and people cannjufge away. I think your statement is about your own insecurity,  not the reality. Nobody cares about your degree beyond your first and maybe, just maybe second job. I run an organization of 1500 people and nobody is impressed of you went to Tufts. When I review a linked in profile,  I rarely scroll to the bottom. I don't care when you did in 2004, let alone where you graduated from in 1998.[/quote]

In IT it doesn't matter.  My husband went to a school no one has ever heard of and is doing well.  However, I wouldn't want my doctor preforming surgery going to that school or the worst rated medical school when its life or death.  It really depends on the degree and profession.  [/quote]

+1.  In the legal profession, the school does matter (although I can see that it does not matter in IT).

I got a BA from a large state university (nothing fancy) in 1992, and then went to a Top 5 law school  (1993-1996).  Going to that particular law school was very transformative for my entire career and life.[/quote]

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