Why Do Party Schools Rank So High?

Packers1
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:04:16 +0000

What is interesting is that the data doesn’t support what Bigbrother is saying. When you look at CEOs, second tier UW Madison has more than any one of the Ivies. When you look at young fund managers, more of them are from Madison than any one of the Ivies. Just because a school is big, or has a lot of students who party, doesn’t mean that you can’t get an excellent education there. And the old saw that the top banks and firms don’t recruit except at the Ivies just isn’t true anymore.
The person and how her or she interviews and then does his job is much more important to a persons ultimate carreer success than what college they attended. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that you have to go to a top 20 school or you are doomed; it isn’t true.