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Old 07-27-2014, 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by elchivito View Post
A brief perusal of the book I mentioned earlier will indicate that "Ivy League" schools are no guarantee of a "better" education.
There are no guarantees in life. As they say, if you want a guarantee, get a toaster. So aside from guarantees, if you want to talk of a better education, how are we defining better and what are the odds of that happening? I can personally state that my couple of years in an accredited backwater school compared with a couple of years at a private (Non-Ivy League) college showed a massive difference in student attitude especially with the upperclassmen.

All that aside, who do you think has a better chance of getting an interview? Me with a degree from Backwater State U or you from Harvard, all things equal? Considering that there was something written a while ago about kids with unusual and hard to pronounce names not getting a good look, what would you think? All they did was change the name on the resume from Tom to say Alshinatipup and they get more looks with Tom, what do you think?
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