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What = Top 5? |
| Message Name: |
Life's not bad for the good people |
| Date Posted: |
01/12/2001 |
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Hello,
I have a problem. I am in my sophmore year at a city college and have to choose what university I am going to transfer to soon. I work full time and have good grades but I also work full time. My problem is I think and feel if I do not go to a top tier university that I won't get a good job, I want to get in to business consulting and strategy. I also do not have a lot of money, hense city college, but am willing to take out a loan. If any one out there has any insight please reply. Thanks. |
| Message: |
You are absolutely correct that the name on the degree makes a real difference when job-hunting time comes. But that doesn't mean you're shut off from anything. And a "good job" shouldn't be that hard to find for anyone who works hard and proves himself as you seem to do.
Now if by "good job" you mean nothing but strategy consulting, that is a hard bar to get over. And you might not hit it immediately right out of school. But you seem like someone who's willing to pay his (her) dues, so if it takes a few years of work experience or an MBA to get there, I'm sure you'll get there.
As for the short-term answer, you should try to get into the best school that's within your means. Over-extending yourself money-wise or time-wise is not wise at all. And you'll be better off in the long run, even in terms of getting to strategy consulting, if you carefully progress as a well-rounded person now.
The biggest difference, I think you'll find, between top-tier schools and non, is that you have to be a more active participant in the job search process. Find someone from your school who managed to work his way into the chosen firm, and then you'll have a way of networking yourself in.
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