gpc3 wrote:
The name of the school on the diploma matters plenty in hiring/promoting, so regardless of how much one learns, always go for the name school. The education you get is totally up to the student but I can say, as a Stanford grad, that it was my fellow students that I learned the most from, and they were of a uniformly high intellect. I assumed that's what most people were like when I went out into the world, but I found that those kind of people are rare and I stood out like a sore thumb in what I now understood about the world and the people in it,
Pure BS. Doesn't work that way - just hype from certain schools (call it propaganda) to make gullible people think this way. Why is this such a big deal in the US? because celebrity matters, and celebrity schools are a "thing". While it likely won't hurt to have this accreditation on your CV, the notion that it makes the difference you think it does is a fallacy. This is part and parcel of the "we are the greatest country in the world" delusion.