Good thing we're "super-elite"

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

We didn’t need the latest study to tell us that Yale graduates have good career prospects, but apparently Columbia, MIT and Dartmouth graduates are not so lucky.

According to a new study top-tier professional service firms only look to recruit graduates from “super-elite” universities: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

The Chronicle of Higher Education had this to say on the matter:

You also can’t read this study without getting the feeling that the game is rigged. That obtaining a name-brand diploma matters more than actually learning something. That the gatekeepers at our nation’s most prestigious firms are pathetically shallow, outrageously parochial, and insufferably snobbish. The message is this:

It’s not what you did in college. It’s where you got in.

Ouch.

[via Business Insider]

CSRealist 1 year, 4 months ago

Gatekeepers, as in the HR representatives being increasingly replaced as HR functions are being outsourced in similarly increasing instances. Caught between a rock and an "HR"-d place, skilled but not too skilled. Ambitious, but not too ambitious. On the one hand, the need to attract or retain talent is high. On the other, this "snobbish" attitude underpins much of the deficiencies facing America's gut of skilled workers. On the third hand, all of the above points highlights the need for added emphasis on entrepreneurship. With the forth hand, Sheeva just give a thumbs up.

smartypants79 1 year, 4 months ago

F that! While i'm sure there is some unfairness in all of this, people want grads from these super elite institutions because they are the super elite minds. Yes, it's true that we got in to these places, and we also learned a lot while we were here. This is not meaningless. The fact that we got here in the first place and did well throughout, in fact, says quite a lot. (unless you're some dumb as toast legacy/child of a major donor.)

I'm a double Ivy and I am because I worked really hard, continue to work really hard, and am smart as a whip to boot.

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Good thing we're "super-elite"