career opportunities

maybetransfer
Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:04:23 +0000

wash u is a fabulous school. your daughter will be successful. what’s more, she is not going to graduate from any undergrad school and hop into the top position at any prestigious law firm/corporation/medical practice. kids from washu get jobs. my sis is currently working at DA’s office (won’t say where) and her colleagues are from Ivy, state, LAC, and everything else you can think of.

i tend to PM bc threads always degenerate into people arguing about rankings

i understand that on the west washu may be a little less of a name… but it really carries a lot of weight. i think “lesser” names carry more weight than people think and the “big” names carry less than people would like to tell themselves. today successful companies are not staffed fully by ivies like they might have been a generation ago (granted neither of my rents went to a big name school are both are veryyy successful). i think it’s ironic that most adults i know did not go to big name schools, are very successful, and are obsessed with name value for their children…