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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting article though it doesn’t support OP’s comment.  My key takeaways (only from the article):

1.  There continue to be many employers that still hire mainly only from the elite schools (admittedly, the example was a law firm which is strange since the article focuses on undergrads);

2.  Studies show that the kids that are the “best” at school (evidence led by GPA/test scores) often aren’t the best at “life” measured by success in whatever career people choose…be it academia, business, etc. this is why Google apparently doesn’t ask for GPA when hiring because the kids with the highest GPA often dont become their best employees.

3. Wealth can effectively buy you into top schools through private schools, test prep, tutors, etc. so the colleges claiming to have gotten rid of the old Blue Blood system are still continuing it to some extent.

4.  The MC and LMC resent that they are effectively shut out of these gate-keeping colleges which to them means they are relegated to crappy jobs

5. The demographic crisis will force hundreds of colleges to drastically change their MO so perhaps that will lead to a new group of “elite” schools attainable by the MC/LMC.[/quote]

The Google thing is a lie spread by the former head of HR Google trying to generate cloud for his new company. Google cares a lot about GPA. [/quote]

Google also cares a LOT about what college you went to .[/quote]

Yes. Yes they do. And it is the same 15-20 schools that are most coveted [/quote]

They did care back in the Marissa Mayer days, but they have much more college diversity now. Source: I work at Google and have for 15+ yrs.[/quote]

Interesting. My mother was being recruited by Google for a higher level position at age 60 about 15 years ago and they asked for her college GPA and her SAT score. She was dumbfounded and didn't even remember her SAT score from 40+ years ago and could not believe they'd consider it at all relevant.[/quote]

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