Roughrider
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This Google talk -- long, and statistics-laden, but interesting -- by Malcolm Gladwell, about elite institutions and meritocracy, suggests that the military has been doing it right.
(I'd add..."and then you should work your butt off to be in the top ten percent of the class," but that's beside Gladwell's point.)
"In hiring, you should not care, in fact there should be a 'don't ask don't tell' policy, about where an applicant went to school. You should hire on the basis of performance and class rank only. Wall Street banks that only hire graduates of top schools, are morons.
And if you want to be successful, for your undergraduate degree you should never go to the most competitive school you can get into. Never. Ever. You should go to the best school in which you will be in the top 25-30% of their applicant pool."
(I'd add..."and then you should work your butt off to be in the top ten percent of the class," but that's beside Gladwell's point.)