<p>Joining the military is a very large commitment and should not be taken lightly.</p>
<p>Thank you all for your input; I have chosen to attend the University of Kentucky.</p>
<p>Our vetting process of candidates is very complete, by the time we hire we know a candidates background very well. In the one hire I have made where the young man attended a CC for a year he had done so for health reasons and then transferred to a top college.</p>
<p>I hire for elite jobs which is why I see mostly people who have been high achievers all of their lives. While some certainly have break out achievements, I think it's safe to say that the top 2%, those attending HBS, the pattern of achievement is a long one. And while terminal school is said to be most important, you will find in elite business situations that there is still a lot of identification with those who went to your college. So while at a typical investment bank almost all went to a top MBA program if they have MBA's, you'll find that they often come in through a college connection hence the huge group of Dartmouth guys in one place, Princeton in the next.</p>
<p>hmom is kind of a d-bag.</p>
<p>I don’t think so, wannabe, it makes sense to me that those who attend elite business schools (actually, obtain elite educations in general) do so because their track record of achievement has put them in a place to be able to obtain admission – not that it is IMPOSSIBLE to do it any other way, but that is the “typical path”. Sure you have your occasional one in a million stories, like the UPS deliveryman getting into HBS, but it makes sense to go to the best school you can get into, excel there, from that excellence, take another leap forward in terms of job prestige, and from there, reach the elite business school level.</p>
<p>There’s a CEO who went to upenn undergrad and UCLA law. She then started work in a mailroom, and moved up from there. But then again everyone in the film industry starts at the bottom.</p>