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Undergrad Doesn't Matter |
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Colleges by Department Matter |
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08/07/2002 |
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If you're in business and it's a school like Wharton, Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, etc., it will certainly matter. But once you move on to the second job, it is what you've done and where you have worked that matters most. I attended the University and all they commented on was basketball. My first job was with General Motors and that's what the recruiters concentrated on, no basketball. |
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Two answers for this thread. One regarding hiring and the other regarding grad schools.
Re: Hiring. School matters. Sometimes positive sometimes negative. I went to a good liberal arts college. If I have two candidates, and one was from that school, they have an edge. If I know the school they have an edge.
Now, as to Grad schools and choice of undergraduate school: My son was just recruited by a major school. . .second in its field, coming from what is essentially an unknown school. In fact he was recruited by three schools, one of which he didn't even apply to, or send his GRE scores directly to.
What mattered? His GRE. You get a 2300 on the GRE and schools will look at you. You get an 800 in a section and schools will look at you.
The school my son went to (he had over a 1500 on his SATs so could have gone almost anywhere) is basically a suburban commuter school. But his department was populated with good faculty. In his three years (how long it took him to earn his undergraduate degree) he had two National Science Foundation fellowships for summer work and presented papers with faculty members at two conferences.
Credentials go well beyond just a school. But just a school can get attention.
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