My 23 yr old Auburn grad is making more money than her high school besties from Northwestern and Penn. But they are all happy and having a great time in their early 20s. They live in fun cities and have cute boyfriends when they feel like it.

And no one cares where they went to college and all three will go far.

Get a life.

Of course not.

Anonymous wrote:I employ 12 t20 grads and 6 of them IVY. They must hate they work for a guy that went to state school outside the top 150.

You sound like a smart guy, but this is typical. I worked for someone from UK who hired entry level from Harvard and Wharton for his start-up.

For a bunch of educated people, most of you have not addressed what OP is asking, which is about the social impacts, not about careers.

I have friends who went to GMU, UMD, Harvard, Cal,Stanford, UCLA, other cheap state u, which I am also a product of. But, then, those people who went to the Harvard and the like are humble and kind people. One of the people I know who went to Harvard actually hated Harvard because they said so many there were conceited, but then this was in the 90s. I don't know if it's different today.

Maybe it's because I am originally from CA and went to college in the 90s. Maybe it's different today, but I have made some new friends here in the DC area, and some of them went to places like Harvard and Duke. Or, maybe this is the exception, and not the rule. I confess, I don't know *that* many people around here.

Anonymous wrote:So far: no one has come up with any concrete argument against this idea. Why be defensive without any concrete reasoning?

As an adult 25+ years out of college, no one in my circle of friends, other parents from DC’s HS, or any of my business colleagues (except friends from HS or college, or the hiring manager) knows where I went to school (far below T75, for the record). No one asks. There are ways it could come up organically in conversation, sure, but it hasn’t. So no, IME it isn’t relevant.