Or, just read Frank Bruni’s book, “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be.” The problem with this book full of selective examples, however, is that he could write another book extolling why it pays to go to the Ivy League schools full of selective examples and convince the readers as much.
If @austinmshauri is correct and you already have a bs in biology, why don’t you ask questions that actually pertain to what you want to know vs having posters respond like you are going to be entering college as a freshman?
FWIW, my ds is a chemE from a no name school who graduated with honors, 12 months of co-op experience as well UG research with international presentations. He has worked alongside grads from UM, Purdue, Berkeley, as well Bama, NCSU, VT, etc. Basically people from all over the place. His career path forward has been based on absolutely nothing other than job performance at this point and he has received numerous promotions.
But, the path of someone with just a bs in bio is a rough road. Many end up with just doing the job of a lab tech especially if they didn’t have some sort of career building experience in addition to their diploma.
@TomSrOfBoston Last I looked 90% of people’s life ambition didn’t materialize.
No, their college won’t matter as much as their job experience and performance. (In fact, their “performance” in college probably won’t matter at all at that point.) However, it can have an indirect effect.
When you’re looking for your second or third job out of college, most employers are going to care far more about your experience at the first and/or second job than where you went to college. Where you went to college becomes less relevant, because your performance at the former job is much more indicative of how you will perform at the next job than where you went. However, if your college influenced your first job - like let’s say the job asks for or prefers experience at a top strategy consulting firm and your Cornell BS helped you get that kind of job - then it obviously has an indirect effect.