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[quote=Anonymous]Article on this topic:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/05/our-dangerous-obsession-with-harvard-stanford-and-other-elite-universities/?tid=sm_fb

References both Penn State and Cornell:

"Bigger employers are now increasingly using “people analytics” in hiring to determine the pedigree of their best employees, and to their surprise they are finding they don’t always come from elite schools. As a result, many are revamping their recruitment practices and hiring from a wider swath of college and universities...Large companies already appear to favor schools outside of the elites. In 2010, the Wall Street Journal asked recruiters at nearly 500 of the largest companies, nonprofits, and government agencies, which schools they liked the best and trusted the most when looking for new college graduates. The top five? Penn State, Texas A&M, the University of Illinois, Purdue, and Arizona State — all public universities. The only private school in the top 10 was Carnegie Mellon (at No. 10) and the only Ivy League institution in the top 25 was Cornell, at No. 14."

The Ivy education may be more intellectual (can't compare since I've only attended one type) and be a great stepping stone to a career in banking or consulting but it's hardly a ticket to success.  The super-driven kids who get into Ivies will be successful anywhere they go.  Unless they hit some difficulty that they can't cope with since to get into a Harvard etc. these days you seem to need to be someone who has literally never failed at anything.

And, really, after your first job who cares where you went to undergrad?  The only people I know who reference their undergrad are either talking about it in reference to college basketball or they are those insufferable people who think their Harvard etc. degree proves how smart they are and thus must mention it regularly so we don't forget.  Not saying they are all like that -- I know plenty of people who are ivy grads who never mention it (only learn of it when it comes up naturally in conversation at some point) -- but the ones who are so insecure that they NEED people to know where they went to school are not helping the schools' reputation in the real world.[/quote]

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