<p>Eh, just seems like a waste of money to me. No one who is going to be hiring you gives a whit where you went.</p>
<p>Be warned some employers don’t even hire from java schools. </p>
<p>Il take Joels work on this one. [The</a> Perils of JavaSchools - Joel on Software](<a href=“http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html]The”>The Perils of JavaSchools – Joel on Software)</p>
<p>what about SML? i realized cornell teaches SML for its advanced programming class.</p>
<p>@Dr.Horse -
While that article makes valid points, I highly doubt that any jobs would denied to you due to the fact that you learned Java at your university. If you are qualified for a job, know your stuff and bright enough to learn fast it doesn’t matter what school you went to and it doesn’t matter if you started on Java or not.</p>
<p>A lot of top notch universities are what you call ‘java schools’.</p>
<p>Eh, real programmers use butterflies anyway.</p>
<p>And if anyone here doesn’t get that reference, shame on you.</p>
<p>“Eh, just seems like a waste of money to me. No one who is going to be hiring you gives a whit where you went.”</p>
<p>Some large software engineering companies only hire new grads from highly-selective schools.</p>
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<p>You are speaking for newly graduated students. Those companies you speak of only hire NON-experienced workers from certain schools. Those companies will also hire people with several years experience regardless of their school.</p>
<p>but what he’s saying is, if you are looking to getting into those companies right after graduation, he’s really not wasting any money like somebody mentioned.</p>
<p>he was talking about ‘new grads’ after all. if he’s not interested in building several years experience first before getting into “large software engineering companies”, it’s not doing any disservice to him by going to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>By the way, what companies do you guys speak of that only hire from certain colleges? I’ve never heard a company that doesn’t hire someone who knows their stuff but went to a school that wasn’t MIT or Ivy League or w/e.</p>
<p>Neither have I JoeJoe, neither have I.</p>
<p>In any case, if you can afford it feel free to go to an Ivy. I just don’t think the price tag is worth it for a possible slight advantage in getting your very first job after college. Some might care where you went for your first job, but after that NO one cares anymore where you went.</p>
<p>But if you take care of business in college, get good grades, an internship or two, it really shouldn’t matter all that much where you graduate from.</p>
<p>“But if you take care of business in college, get good grades, an internship or two, it really shouldn’t matter all that much where you graduate from.”</p>
<p>Large companies have human resources departments that do the initial screenings of candidates. The people in human resources typically know very little about the technical areas of the jobs that they are hiring for. So human resources putting a filter on resumes that come into engineering mangers cuts down the number substantially. If an HR person gets too many resumes for a position, another option is to just say that an MS degree is required.</p>