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[quote=Anonymous]In my experience, most hiring managers who are not from the very top firms are not that knowledgeable about colleges outside their local area or in the top 20.  The default seems to be if somebody went to "University of..." they got a quality education and are sufficiently intelligent because it's the flagship school of their state.  In the past I have tried to encouraged them to look at the admissions profile of University of Idaho' vs the admissions profile of VCU, GMU, UMBC and you see that the students attending local public schools that are NOT the flagship tend to have SATs/ACTs/GPAs far above the flagship in lower populated areas, but this is a bias that seems to stick hard.  Interestingly--for better or for worse--some of the new algorithmic hiring software factors in the standardized tests inter-quartile range of colleges.  So instead of you giving your SAT score (as some places request) they just give you a factor that's informed by the average at your college.  Weird new world. [/quote]

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