<p>Look, none of this changes the fact that graduates from Ivies/top tier universities are drawn to a small handful of “elite” destinations. Of course you will see these recruiters rank students from here more highly - recruiters will simply encounter and be exposed to more large state school grads at your average F500 firm, whereas they will encounter fewer Ivy grads in entry level F500 job.</p>
<p>Even if the 2 Harvard grads in a F500 entry level job that a recruiter meets are great workers and are absolutely brilliant and creative, I’d wager that if a firm had 50 grads from ASU, 40 of whom were good workers and 10 of whom were really bad, the recruiter would probably rank ASU students higher simply because they know more good workers from ASU than they know from Harvard, regardless of what the proportions might actually say.</p>
<p>The only places were a recruiter might meet lots of Ivy League grads at work is where there really is a preponderance of Ivy grads: high tech, finance, consulting, and other destinations like Teach for America. </p>
<p>Fun fact: at Brown after graduation, 22% of students go to grad school (not necessarily PhDs), 11% volunteer / travel / do fellowships. The rest go to work: the top employer by far is Teach for America, followed by Google, Goldman Sachs, and Microsoft. This is not the makeup of Penn State / ASU grads.</p>
<p>Furthermore, any ranking that places Purdue, Virginia Polytechnic, and the University of Maryland above MIT in the engineering category is worthless.</p>
<p>If you rely on these rankings, then if you want to go into business and if you are admitted to both OSU and Harvard full-ride, then you ought to choose OSU because that will maximize your job opportunities, right? <em>sarcasm</em></p>