<p>Ha, that;s weird, an article an Yahoo said people with a degree from HYPS has a 7-11% higher salary than regular colleges. But then, HYPS people are really smart naturally, so maybe that's the factor, not the degree...</p>
<p>it pretty much re-stated everything that has already been said so far. "We would be lying if we said that employers aren't the least bit influenced by where a job candidate went to school. Elite schools do give their students an advantage early in their career, primarily because these schools attract more on-campus recruiters than less prominent schools"</p>
<p>interesting quote: "graduates of higher-priced schools end up practicing law and medicine at nearly twice the rate of graduates from other schools"</p>
<p>No, the gist of the article is that if you are smart and educated enough, the college you attended will be irrelevant but for the first 3-4 years out of school. Again, getting a plush job is not high on my list of priorities after I graduate. Frankly, coming out of school I'd rather have a grunt job for a couple of years that allows for interaction with working class people and perhaps make me a more well-rounded individual. The overly preppie attitude is common of those 25-year-old Wall Street types that I see a lot in the city, sipping on their martinis during happy hours, the size of their wallet and name of their school the only validation they've ever needed. One more thing, noone is going to give you a $100,000 salary at 21, no matter your school.</p>
<p>Academically talented students want to go to great schools academically - just because thats where they place importance. Even though they are smart and would be succesful either way, they prefer to be around kids similar to themselves.</p>
<p>Going to a great school compared to an OK school is an advantage for getting first jobs, connections, things like that. There's definetely an advantage - if there wasn't, they wouldn't be considered "good" schools.</p>
<p>Rigorous vs. Prestige--- is there a difference, or are those two basically the same?</p>
<p>In my opinion, it honestly does not matter where you go to college, it mainly is about connections, and like said before, bigger schools have bigger connections, but that does not mean a medi-ocre school doesn't have some good ones too. </p>
<p>I got a small taste of the working world already, and I'm only a senior in high school. My job was given to me cause my dad knows the owners of a decent sized internet company, and after 7 months of working there, I'm already a supervisor. So I mean it all depends on how you want to look at, but from my experience, I feel that I'll be just fine after college even if I don't go to a big name college. There's so many people I know around here that made a lot of money and did not even go to college. Yes, I'm sure a group of people like that is uncommon, but it still can happen. It really depends on your location and your connections.</p>
<p>If you're going to on from college to grad school, it doesn't really matter much to employers where you went undergrad. It's really best to find pretty selective (top 50 at least) undergrad school where you can be happy and successful, then go on to a killer grad school. If you go say U of M undergrad and Harvard graduate say business school, and do well, is anyone going to give a rat's a98 about the U of M? Probably not. But if you're not going into grad school, then be afraid, be very afraid, because the stakes are much higher.</p>
<p>if thats Michigan, wat's wrong with that?</p>
<p>Why be afraid, stewie?</p>
<p>The Name basically gets you a "head start" for only your FIRST JOB. Companies like to recruit from "Name Colleges", thus may offer you a slightly higher salary to entice you to their company. After your first job... the rest has nothing to do with your college... I do believe they look at how well you did at your first job...etc.</p>
<p>College or Graduate? I think graduate is more important, if you pursue that far.</p>
<p>I'm sorry. U of M is a fine school with good job placement, some excellent programs, and good graduate schools, and it was a bad example. There's nothing wrong with it. All that I meant to say was that I think that graduate school is much more important than undergraduate school in job placement.</p>
<p>By saying, "be afraid, be very afraid" I meant to assert that one needs to worry more about one's undergraduate college if one is not going on to graduate school. That's all.</p>
<p>And a lot of jobs don't even require that you go to a top-tier college. In fact the vast majority don't. So there's probably nothing to be afraid of.</p>
<p>I'm surprised that it's not more.</p>
<p>Obviously not...</p>
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<p>Rigorous would be:
Reed
Harvey Mudd
Olin College of Engineering
St. Johns
CalTech</p>
<p>Prestige would be:
Amherst
Brown
MIT
Wharton
Stanford</p>
<p>If you can cite the difference, then A+ for you? The most rigorous schools in the country don't have to be prestige to be rigorous, in fact, they're not really that prestige to begin with.</p>
<p>True ture :::: Olin?? never heard of it.</p>
<p>You might add University of Chicago to your rigorous list. Also, CalTech would certainly be considered prestigious, no?</p>
<p>CalTech is prestigious :), also vigorous, I think.</p>
<p>if you dont want a good, well-paying job, no.</p>