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[quote=Anonymous]As with most rankings, it really depends on what the student wants to do and where they want to live. Some industries really only recruit from certain predominantly Ivy schools. Like finance. If you want finance or consulting in New York City, you are better off going to most of the Ivy schools. But if you want the same field and are willing to live elsewhere like Chicago, SF, Dallas, Seattle etc then you will have plenty of opportunities coming out of Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Rice, Michigan, WashU, Emory etc.

But if engineering or tech, you can drop all the Ivy schools except Cornell and Princeton. You will have more opportunities going to Georgia Tech, Rice, Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, Texas, Michigan because that’s where the engineering talent is today. Going to Harvard or Yale would be a big mistake if you actually want to build things.

As for other fields, it doesn’t matter that much at this level of schools. Grad/law/med schools aren’t favoring Columbia/Brown/Dartmouth over Rice/Vandy/CMU. HYP students still gets an extra look, but as others have noted, every employer is wary of the privilege and laziness they often bring.[/quote]

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