<p>The ivy’s and other well known schools give you an edge by their name.</p>
<p>As a business owner, I will pay more attention to a resume of someone who graduated from Harvard or MIT than someone else’s resume who graduated from an unknown state university. At the very least, it gets my attention on that resume, and, more often than not, an interview.</p>
<p>Having said that, the next step is up to the applicant. They get an edge by where they went to school, but if they are total idiots, I wouldn’t hire them anyways.</p>