<p>dchow:</p>
<p>As folk here know, both my wife and I have degrees from a highly-ranked liberal arts college.</p>
<p>The thing I have found it is has been useful in the job world to be able to play both sides of the fence. You find yourself in many groups where saying that you went to Yale or Columbia would instantly get you pegged as an pointy-headed rich-kid snob. There are many times when it is useful that folk don’t recognize the hoity-toity college.</p>
<p>I have found that my employers know the college I went to, at least by reputation. The people who know Swarthmore (or the school I went to) will know that it is hot stuff academically. In cases, where people have not known, it has been pretty easy to characterize the nature of the school in one sentence.</p>
<p>As I say, I have found it quite useful to have the flexibility to play it either way. It’s interesting to see how often Harvard grads will say they “went to school in Boston” for just that reason.</p>