<p>"And sometimes, some employers can be prejudiced for/against certain academic institutions.</p>
<p>I experienced this firsthand while interviewing at a financial institution in the Boston area where I knew the interview was going to go south within the first few minutes the moment the interviewer saw the name of my undergrad institution and made comments about it being a college full of “radical lefty protestors”."</p>
<p>If they were that prejudiced against it, they wouldn’t have given you an interview in the first place. Anyway, ONE person made such a comment, which doesn’t extrapolate to “employers” as a whole. </p>