Went to a non-top-20 school, wound up working at McDonald's

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Anecdotally, I hear similar stories about some Ivies. One senior guy in oil industry told me about his Yale alum President boss forwarding resumes and asking him to talk to several Yale grads irrespective of whether he had a job to offer or whether they were relevant. This guy graduated 30 years ago and had no connection to these recent grads who threw in a resume to an Yale alum as part of their job search other than going to the same school.

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<p>Sure - which could have equally happened if the guy went to Texas A&M. There’s nothing magical about the Ivies or similar elite schools that would make their grads more likely to “go to bat for their brethren,” for lack of a better term.</p>