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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've worked for nine years at NASA and the past ten years at NIST.  Both places are full of people who graduated from Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, CMU, Caltech, etc... and guess what, they are just GS 13/14/15 just like people who graduated from VCU, ODU, VATech, GMU, etc...[/quote]

Nobody argues that if you are going to work for the government perhaps you should save the $$$s.  That said, what %age of the GS 13/14/15 come from your first set of schools vs. your latter set?  If it is 90/10 former vs. latter, then of course that would argue the school matters.  If it is 50/50, then you would be correct.  Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the it is more like 35/65, only because kids from the former schools (except CalTech) don't ever talk about working for a government agency.

FWIW, I find CalTech to be an enigma.  I have never met a Caltech grad in private industry, but know several that work at JPL or go onto academia.  I realize we are East Coast and CalTech is a very small school.[/quote]

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