<p>onedegree</a> : The only professional and social networking site for USC students, alumni and fans</p>
<p>My school doesn't have a big one, as far as I can see.</p>
<p>thanks guys! =]
i appreciate your help!</p>
<p>I think the average alum at Dartmouth or Williams is a lot more likely to be helpful in career prospects with fellow alums and current students because it's a lot more unique to have gone to a school with 500-1,000 students a class than one that churns out thousands of grads each year. Whether that's more powerful than UFlorida alum network in Miami I don't know, but to me if a Bowdoin student contacts a random Bowdoin alum in FL for career help, they are a lot more likely to get a positive response than a UFlorida student contacting a UFlorida alum because the Bowdoin pair share a much more unique common bond.</p>
<p>I think gellino is onto something--sure, a school with a lot of alums around the country sounds good--on the surface, it seems like its networking would give you potential entree into more firms and fields....but might the size and the sheer numbers reduce the willingness of those alums to go out of their way to assist a fellow graduate? I don't know the answer, but I think it's an interesting question.</p>
<p>i think it totally depends on your part of the country. around here it is texas a&m.</p>
<p>Here is what I do know: University of Florida alumi pretty much have every senior level management position in the state of Florida for themselves. They have the state on lockdown, and an Ivy League education is not that big of an advantage because the power structure basically revolves around this flagship university. I doubt alot of people in Florida have even heard of Bowdoin. Maybe Williams and Amherst but as far LAC's go people in Florida could care less about their hearty curriculum and all that other BS.</p>
<p>This is also true at: University of Texas, Texas A&M, UGA, Georgia Tech, UNC, UVA, Universty of Alabama, etc...</p>
<p>USC is known to go out of their way to help out alumni. In terms of salary, Dartmouth has the highest starting pay out of all schools.</p>
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<p>Umm... no. Texas' alumni network is pretty weak actually. While the name on their degree may be very well known, A&M and maybe even Rice have stronger networks regionally.</p>
<p>Bucknell alumni are supportive</p>
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<p>It's not starting pay, where according to WSJ Dartmouth only ranked #22, but rather median mid-career salary that Dartmouth ranked #1.</p>
<p>ssobick, </p>
<p>the idea is that if there were a bowdoin student in a position of power in florida, she's far more likely to be drawn to a bowdoin applicant than others. we're all quite aware of the failure of name recognition in florida, but gellino's comment had little to do with that.</p>
<p>No connections to either ... I think Michigan and Notre Dame have outstanding alumni networks. People who go to either really seem to have bought into a spirit that lasts long after their college days, to an extent I've never seen with any other school (and no, not even the Ivies).</p>
<p>slipper 1234, you said: "The alumni magazine posts every year's class notes."</p>
<p>LOL, so does every other alumni magazine. Hawkette is right. Dartmouth is a fabulous school, but here in Chicago? You'd be better served by NU/U of Chicago/Notre Dame/U of IL/U of Wis/U of Michigan and maybe even WashU than Dartmouth. </p>
<p>And to SSobick's boostering of Florida - if I were choosing between Dartmouth and Florida, there's no contest - Dartmouth, without a doubt. But that doesn't mean that he's not correct that in Florida, the U of Florida network can carry someone quite far.</p>
<p>I think people outside the Northeast forget that there's a world outside the Northeast, AND they don't fully recognize that not all jobs and careers are ones in which elite degrees matter. Frankly, a U of IL graduate can get just about anywhere he or she wants to in the Chicago area, perhaps with the small exception of a very few firms, maybe 0.00001% of all employers so who cares.</p>
<p>Syracuse University has a great alumni based network.</p>
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<p>Because a high % of people on this site don't know where they want to live or are geographically indifferent and are aspiring to those very firms</p>
<p>Yeah, and goodness knows the events of the last week have shown that drooling over Bear Sterns, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, etc. on Wall Street is a really meaningful strategy.</p>
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<p>College grads are still going to desire to work at those places. Well, except for Bear Stearns, they will.</p>
<p>I think many good schools have been mentioned.......Texas A&M has to be one of the best. The spirit is awesome and seems to stay bright well into alumni years. At A&M, we don't even really call them "alums." Once you are an Aggie, you are always an Aggie. My class ring has gotten me jobs, in doors of private meetings, client introductions, etc. The t.u. (Texas) alumni network is much weaker. A favorite quote from Secretary of State Robert Gates (former President of A&M) "Wherever I am, whatever I am doing, I will always bleed maroon." He is not an alum, however the spirit of the school totally permeated him during his tenure there and he mentions it often.</p>