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<p>When I was a hiring manager we didn’t hire anyone who was average. At the company I worked for you couldn’t get an interview if your GPA was less than 3.25 no matter where you went to school (I hear these days it’s up to 3.5). The higher your GPA the better your odds. Secondly, with undergrads we didn’t travel to go get them. In Chicago we interviewed at Northwestern, DePaul, UIUC, Indiana, Notre Dame and Wisconsin. In Boston it was Harvard, BC, BU, Northeastern and a handful of smallers. If a kid from Wharton walked in I’d listen, but no company spends money to go interview undergrads hundreds of miles away and then move them from one side of the country to another, not when there are perfectly fungible options in our own back yard. </p>
<p>Grad school was different, there was an approved list and much of the initial work was done by corporate. Are undergrad IB, top-tier consulting/accounting and certain engineering jobs different? Sure, but that’s a small sub-set of the jobs people get.</p>