<p>Unalove’s question to Sam Lee: “if you were a recruiter (or an employer), would you see a difference between a Duke, Chicago, Dartmouth, Columbia, Northwestern grad simply from the name of the school? I wouldn’t. I would probably search for more telling aspects on the resume and in recommendation letters and in interviews to help give me a sense of each applicant.”</p>
<p>Of course not. The real world doesn’t work like ambitious high school seniors think it does. All of the above schools equally provide the “stamp of smartness” and then it’s up to the student and his or her own interpersonal skills to seal the deal and land the job. Only high school senior CC addicts think that employers are going to stare more at the name on the resume than at the actual person in front of them.</p>