Your undergrad doesn't matter! Grad school is what matters

>your undergrad doesn't matter! Grad school is what matters

How many of you little brainlets still delude yourselves with this sort of thinking? Daily reminder that if you go to a mediocre state school, you will NEVER attend a top tier school, regardless of how good your grades are, how good your test scores are, and how good your research is.

mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/education/edlife/why-you-cant-catch-up.html?_r=0&referrer=

>The reasons for the disparity are easy to track, said Christopher Avery, a professor of public policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government who has written extensively on college as an agent of social mobility. Students who earn a degree from an elite college, even those with unimpressive grades and test scores, are simply too far ahead of those who don’t, he said.

>What’s disturbing about this research is that it shows that even if you distinguish yourself as a great student at a Tier 4 school, and by some miracle you get into a good grad program, you aren’t likely to wind up with the tools you need to ever catch up to those people who went to a more selective four-year college,” Dr. Avery said. “You want to think that at some point the playing field is level, but the truth is increasingly clear that the answer is it probably never is. By high school, it’s pretty much over.

Also, quotes from hiring managers at big engineering companies when it comes to hiring, on quora:

>"I'll be blunt:if you are committed to doing EE, you absolutely must graduate from Berkeley or another top school."
>"If you're interested in startup companies, (and didn't go to a top tier school) many won't even look at your resume: they've got so many coming in from the top schools, it's not worth their time.
>"School is the first thing I look at. You mentioned CSULB. A 4.0 from that school would be competitive with a sub-3.0 from top UCs, such as UCLA, or Berkeley"

Where were you when non-top tier school cucks got BTFO?

My cousin was literally just accepted to Oxford and his undergrad education was in the states at a mediocre university.
Don't get pissed because you failed to get into a decent college.

I went to an elite Ivy League school, but you're wrong. I've been to a lot of PhD recruitment weekends for elite programs and the composition of the recruits was about 50/50 elite schools/non-elite schools. Once you are older and out of undergrad you will realize it's not as important.

Also, still OP here:

Feels good not to be a state school cuck

>While nearly a third of students from Tier 4 schools go on to earn a graduate degree, only 7 percent of them do so at a Tier 1 school; 66 percent remain in a Tier 4 program.

I go to a tier 4 undergrad program and let me tell you: I'd be fucking amazed if even 7% of these people deserved to go to tier 1 grad school. The vast majority of people here are some combination of lazy, disinterested and stupid. This 7% shit has very little to do with low tier schools being discriminated against and a lot more to do with the fact that the students here are lower quality.

I also went to an Ivy League school. If you want my honest advice, you should lose the arrogant attitude. Arrogant types always end up having trouble getting along with others and learning from their mistakes, and if your self-worth hinges on how prestigious your school is and what others think of you, then what will happen when people aren't impressed by you or they pick someone else over you? Your ego will only get in the way of true success.

Highschooler here (Not underage) and one of my fallback colleges is UMass Amherst, is it considered a good state school?

I transferred from a community college to Columbia. What does that make me? I only chose here for the qt jew girls like the brainwashed goy i am.

What counts as Tier 4?

extremely shitty universities