Did I make the wrong college choice?

gearmom
Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:48:09 +0000

@TopTier I’m glad that you brought up East Swampy State because I’ve long wanted to champion that uni. Certainly if you are sifting through thousand of applicants, the prestige choices would float to the top like… cream. Of course there is value in making a prestige choice or why would you pay more? But there can be more to hiring than ink and paper. There can be a human factor which sometimes weighs in. Some, certainly not anyone here, but some prestige choice candidates can come across as a tad arrogant to the mere humans who attended East Swampy (or didn’t even do that). This may be no fault of the prestige choice candidate who has spent the last four years with other beautiful minds but I think we can agree that the East Swampy grad has had to peacefully coexist with a more motley crew . Now for the manager putting together a team of diverse characters, the East Swampy candidate may have an advantage since they are likely fluent in “mere mortal” which is commonly spoken in machine shops and work yards across the nation and less likely to “tick off the guys we need to work with on the floor”. So those East Swampy candidates who are not only multilingual but also have consistently received high marks in “Play well with others” and “Would never think to run with scissors” since they were tots may seem like the best candidate for the team.