beaburt

If you didn't go to Harvard, Yale, Cornell etc, or a "potted Ivy" such as Williams or the like you had better do very well in college and then apply to an Ivy grad school. The current job market is ruthless especially in finance and technology, so unless you make the Ivy cut or the like such as MIT or Cal Tech your resume will be dumped!!!

CoolaTroopa

Lol......?

warblersrule

I had a potted ivy in my dorm room. Sadly, it's been struggling to survive the humidity.

beaburt

I don't mean to sound harsh but we live in a country obsessed with rankings, statistics, numbers etc......so if you are looking to parley a college education into an elite job the only thing better than ivy would be Oxford which makes Harvard look weak! Unfortunately its not strictly meritocracy taht gains one admittance to an Ivy or Oxford in a very large percenatge of cases it is lineage, what family you come from, di your father just donate $50 million bucks to the Business school.

On the other hand if you are attending college for the "right" reason to become educated, and engage in intellectual discourse with other students then honestly any state U is perfectly acceptable. For that matter any public library and a copy of Harvards reading list would suffice and save you 200k!

dittogal88

bill gates dropped out of college and, well, look where he is... seriously what matters is how much drive and work you do, not your institution. now i'm not saying go to a school ranked 600 but anything in the top 70 will do. don't worry about it!

kemet

Bill Gates only dropped out because it made it easier for him to develop software. Don't forget that he was at Harvard.

Miriam Boo

I'll do you one better. I hereby proclaim that you must cover your face (of shame) with a black veil whenever in public if you didn't go to Harvard. If you didn't go to school at one of the Big 3 (Harvard, Yale, or Princeton), you might as well commit harakiri right now. Who said life was easy?

TourGuide446

Don't worry. There will be plenty of jobs once the illegal aliens are tossed out. "OK, all you guys wearing Tufts T-shirts go over there and pick lettuce. All you guys wearing Vanderbilt T-shirts go over there and pick cabbage. All you guys wearing USC T-shirts--if you graduated summa cum laude, there are some avacados for you to pick over there--magna cum laudes and below, go home and work on your resumes, and come back tomorrow."

WorldbandDX

Hey, what's with the attack on Tufts? It's one of the best schools in the country (near-Ivy), and highly selective (and extremely well known in the professional world). Same goes for the top LAC's, JHU, GU, Duke, et al.

cghen

^ TourGuide446 is joking - don't freak out.

Murasaki

If you graduated top of the class from Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and MIT 3 times each then you just might be eligible to peel potatoes at the local restaurant.

WorldbandDX

LOL ok sorry I overreacted

Miriam Boo

How dare you, Murasaki! If you guys from the aforementioned elitist schools are earning $1500/hr to peel potatoes, we want in on the deal. Afterall aren't we all guaranteed the right to life & the pursuit of happiness as well as the right to peel potatoes at the local restaurant?! Life can be so unfair. It's not my fault that I wasn't born into an upper crust, potato-peel'in family.

bobbobbob

Mark Cuban went to Indiana...hes worth about $3 billion right now.

WorldbandDX

"If you graduated top of the class from Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and MIT 3 times each then you just might be eligible to peel potatoes at the local restaurant."

- And if you only graduated twice, you won't get potato-peeling rights, but you might get to lick the dirty dishes. Once each, you could apply for target practice as a immobile dummy human.

- But, if you graduated from La Sorbonne, well then, spoiled milk has more chance in life than you.