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This network only matters if you went to Ivy League or similar schools. Networking with your average person in a state or random private college is the same as
by runawaybottle 6y ago
This network only matters if you went to Ivy League or similar schools.
Networking with your average person in a state or random private college is the same as networking with someone you meet at a Meetup.
- est31 6y agoSure, ivy leauge etc gives you the best contact networks, and this is probably what distinguishes it most from the non ivies that still offer good education, but even your non-ivy-leauge peers go end up having careers, and can open doors for you. Indeed you can also hang out at meetups but I feel like you'll have a harder time.
- topkai22 6y agoThis isn’t correct in a wide variety of circumstances. The top end of schools have networking opportunities that are in a league of its own, but school based networking/affiliation remains important regionally, especially for large state universities. I’ve definitely known instances where the deciding factor for someone in a hiring situation was they went to the same university as the boss (decades apart), and the regional alumni networks of some of these universities can be influential. Now it’s true the further down the prestige chain you go the less it matters, but saying that networking via meetups Birmingham is equivalent to the network you’d get via having gone to U. Alabama or Auburn seems unlikely.
- runawaybottle 6y agoYeah, so in a sense, I reject once removed nepotism in the pursuit of the merictocracy,
- topkai22 6y agoYou think that Ivys don’t work the same way, or worse?
- runawaybottle 6y agoOh, they are demonically worse.
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