evidence that going to a top school DOES open lots of doors and improve job prospects

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<p>And that’s precisely the problem right there. Sometimes you have to be willing to take whatever job comes along, not just your dream job. You certainly shouldn’t be sitting around for 8 months unemployed, not when people who didn’t even go to college at all can still find tech jobs (i.e. IT jobs). Not to be overly harsh, but if you’re just going to sit back and hope that your dream job will find you rather than aggressively pursuing whatever opportunities happen to be available as well as diligently building marketable skills, then I don’t have any sympathy for you.</p>