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[quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]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.[/b]

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]

This is a really simplistic way of looking at things.  I guarantee you will have all the same opportunities graduating from Harvard "if you want to build things" as you will at CMU or Ga Tech.

Go look at the top Y Combinator companies below, which are companies founded by basically early 20 somethings and accepted into Y Combinator (which nearly always leads to venture funding for these companies). Harvard has 3x as many as CMU and 4x as many as Ga Tech.  Rice, Purdue and Texas don't even make the list.

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1) 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 - 704
2) 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐝 - 482
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4) 𝐌𝐈𝐓 - 425
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6) 𝐔𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐧 - 265
7) 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐨 - 186
8) 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐚 - 182
9) 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐧 - 160
10) 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 - 159
11) 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 - 146
12) 𝐎𝐱𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 - 143
13) 𝐘𝐚𝐥𝐞 - 132
14) 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧 - 131
15) 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 - 122[/quote]

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