<p>confidentialcoll,
I never deny that the school makes a difference. I’m denying the idea that the school gets you or gives you a job, or that you’re entitled to a job just because you attend x school.
Hence "A SCHOOL DOESN’T give you or get you a job, YOU do. "
There are plenty of people with work experience, no work experience, etc coming from top schools. It’s not a matter of because they go to X school that they get the job, they get the job for a combination of reasons, and it has to do with THE PERSON landing the job and his or her qualifications. A school on a resume is just one qualificatoin, and can get you in the door for an interview, but that’s only one qualification and rarely JUST the deciding factor for an employer to hire a student in and of itself-without looking at other qualifications. I’m not going to deny or agree at the success of different schools because frankly I don’t know the statistics. And even behind statistics, you never really know the whole picture(ie possibly family connections, or applicant’s side qualifications-that may not even be known to you a friend or observer of those hired, etc).
The poster could have replaced Vassar for any number of top schools, like Williams, Pomona, Claremont, Brown, Columbia etc…and my answer or response would have still been the same. The bottom line is that regardless of where you go(at top schools), for those “top jobs” or “good jobs” you will be competing with numbers of qualified students at your school who are chasing the same goal you are, and across other schools, thousands of students nationwide also competing for the same jobs you are. In terms of economics, there is a higher demand than supply of “good jobs”.</p>