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How much do people care that you went to a top 10 college? I'm sure it depends on your field: in mine (academic science, which is as plagued by name-dropping a
by dguest 2y ago
How much do people care that you went to a top 10 college?
I'm sure it depends on your field: in mine (academic science, which is as plagued by name-dropping and elitism as any) the thing that matters is the last thing you did.
Of course the whole thing is a trajectory. If your goal is to climb the ivory tower (it probably shouldn't be but anyway...) you need to be lucky or rich at some point. But if it doesn't happen at at undergraduate admissions you just have to do actual work, and then get lucky at some later point. So yes, it's screwed up. But that's not my question.
What I want to know: how often are people getting hired based on their undergraduate institution beyond their first job out of collage. Is this a thing? In what field?
- WalterBright 2y agoNobody cares where I went to college. But I cared. I think it's possible to find a path through most universities that will produce a first class education. Take the most challenging classes available.
- iteria 2y agoI'm the opposite. I went to the literal closest college for what I wanted that happen to be a top 10. Even over a decade later people care. They mention it to me. I have a suspiciously easier time getting callbacks in economic downturns. I won't make my kid kill themselves to get into a top 10, but only people who haven't gotten the glow of a top university think it doesn't matter.
- kenjackson 2y agoAnecdotally, I’ve definitely seen a high correlation between schools I’ve heard of and those I haven’t. Schools don’t need to be top 10, but top 100 seems to help a lot. And this is for programming jobs.
- loa_in_ 2y agoSo education marketing?
- expression1sh 2y agoIt seems to matter to those deciding where to put their early-stage venture capital. Granted, that's not why most people are going to college, but it's too simple to say that it isn't used as signal.