College vs Grad School

belevitt
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:05:51 +0000

“Hence, if you end up in industry for whatever reason, then, frankly, your research doesn’t really matter, your advisor doesn’t really matter, and your publications don’t really matter. The prestige of your school matters.”

From my experiences in industry, this comment is right on the money. Remember large biotechs/pharmaceuticals have their hiring done by ignorant human resource representatives who often do not even understand the terms involved in someone’s cv and just bring in individuals who’s cv contains those words. To these people who have no technical criteria to judge applicants, the brand name of an ivy means the difference between the outbox and the circular one.