Lex Young 29:25 2nd to last

You are somewhat correct; however, there are some industries and areas of the country where graduating from a top tier school helps and certainly so in simply getting an interview. What's interesting is, companies with a lot of top tier college graduates are often the ones less interested in where you went to college. The reason for that is they have seen first-hand that where you went to college does matter as much as when it comes down to doing the job. I once ran a department where the best systems analyst I had (by far) never took a college course. College graduates with tech degrees from some of the best schools in America are usually far from ready to be productive in the corporate world. They tend to know a little bit about a lot of things. Sometimes you need someone to write assembly or C to control an instrument and you don't care about anything other than their previous experiences and what you can ascertain from a test and/or interview that they can do the job. With all of that said, having Stanford on your resume creates a lot of positive assumptions and at the very least gives you a better chance of getting a tryout.