<p>and as a side note, this notion of “after your first job, where you go to school doesn’t matter” crap is so misleading.</p>
<p>Your school always matter, because every career has a trajectory. Your first job set your second job up, and so on; where you start absolutely has a lot of bearing on where your career will end up. That’s why so many ambitious students want to work in IBD or MBB. It sets you up in terms of exit opportunities. Your school’s prestige and your performance in school is largely correlated with where you end up for your first job.</p>
<p>Also, school always matter in prestige oriented (also known as high paying, prestigious) industry. It’s so much easier to convince people to pay astronomical fees to have their assets managed, or to get advisory services by people with prestigious pedigrees. That’s why over 75% of the PMs where I used to work at either graduated from Harvard or Wharton. Brand is everything.</p>