<p>^No. Bachelor’s merely opens up the door for an interview. How you present yourself during the interview and other intangibles determine whether you get the job.</p>
<p>Yes, your degree has some bearing on your first job or so, but after that it’s all about what you can say you’ve done AT YOUR JOB.</p>
<p>Honestly, do you think that an employer 15 years from now is going to care more about what you did in your English Lit class, or how much money you made for/saved for your last employer? There are maybe a handful of employers who will continue to care about your Harvard degree.</p>
<p>The rest just want a great employee.</p>
<p>In regards to the recognition of an alma mater for job opportunities, I whole-heartedly agree that the notion of attending a school just for its prestige is somewhat nonsensical. In the grander scope of life, a school does not guarantee success. I think most of us can agree on that.</p>
<p>But that said, I also think that it is important to understand that although it does not guarantee it, the school can affect chances of success. I mean, if you compare getting a job to being accepted into college, you’ll see that the majority that want to get into a good college will strive for a good SAT score. Similarly, the school is just a way of improving chances at getting a job. Of course it’s very judgmental to evaluate a person only on his or her school, but it is done, regardless.</p>
<p>It is pretty narrow-minded to think that SAT scores can get one into a great school, but that doesn’t mean that those that get good SAT scores don’t also do community service or EC’s. I think that many conceive the reputation of the school as an important factor merely because they want to have the best chances in life, which does not dismiss the notion that they may be also preparing for the interview or bolstering their job resume with other activities. Of course the school will not guarantee success, inasmuch as SAT’s won’t as well. I would really be wasting my time trying to get into a “good” college if the same experience can had at community colleges.</p>
<p>UCLA is definitely WOW for some undergrad majors as well as many of its grad schools. It was a WOW for our local HS last Spring when only 2 our of about 50 apps got accepted. Or does that just make our HS look bad?? 18 kids got into UCB . . .</p>
<p>Honestly, majors have so much less of an effect on life than people realize…</p>
<p>South-Central Los Angeles. LOL</p>
<p>I heard in S. Korea, UCLA is pretty well known. More well known then some of the IVYs. For example, if you say you went to Dartmouth, they go like “where???” and if you say Cal/UCLA/Stanford, they go like “Oh… I heard about that university.” You say you are from HYP, they go like “OMG… you must be very smart, you can come to work starting tomorrow” Yeah… UCLA is sort of a wow university in Korea.</p>
<p>Why do people put “Ivy” in capital letters? It’s not an acronym… :(</p>
<p>I’m sorry, I thought it was.</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League]Here’s[/url">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League]Here’s[/url</a>] what the “Ivy League” actually is.</p>
<p>Bump Bump just for fun…it’s nice to see how a thread keeps on going…</p>
<p>Just for fun?</p>
<p>Oh India, man. Everyone I know loves UCLA.</p>
<p>Taiwan = yes.
Evidence: all my relatives there can say “UCLA” in an asian, fobby accent, just as they can say Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, MIT…etc.</p>
<p>So pretty much everywhere EXCEPT the United States!</p>
<p>LaxAttack,</p>
<p>I dunno how true that is. Even in the US, most people are pretty impressed by UCLA. You’re just used to hanging out with a bunch of college grads, I assume.</p>
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<p>LOL! UCLA has a pretty good rep in the US, we’re just blessed with a wider variety of prestigious universities, so some of them get lost in the mix a bit.</p>
<p>Well I don’t think we qualify as a “WOW” university in the US, unless you have a very broad definition of “wow.”</p>
<p>LaxAttack,</p>
<p>Trust me, once you get outside of those walls, you’ll be rather amazed at how “wow” it actually is. It’s just that you’re in UCLA’s backyard, so it’s not impressive there.</p>
<p>i wowed when i got in.</p>
<p>does that count?</p>