Many investment banks, consulting firms, and technology companies only conduct interviews at these top schools. If you have good grades, you will get an interview. If you go to a less prestigious school, you are out of luck unless you are extremely persistent, extra special or graduate at the top of your class. The technology field is probably more open to schools of all kinds. But still, top schools open more doors.

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Who?

on average, UW graduate will perform better than WSU graduate.

Ubersalad, I’m not necessarily going to keep the default set to the photo of my dog. I might go to one of those boring head profiles with a question in it or something if people really don’t like the dog.

However, there’s a reason why UW requires higher GPA and SAT score to enter than Oregon and WSU. know several people that have been accepted to WSU with around 2.5 GPA from local community college. If you think your wife’s assignment is a joke, you should see WSU/Oregon assignment.

And who defines if a university is good or not? Everyone around Seattle likes to salivate over the UW, but I personally believe that unless you’re going for a professional degree like medicine and maybe law, there is really no difference between UW / Oregon / WSU, etc. My wife is a Husky and let me tell you, I saw some of the crap she had for her assignments and my first reaction was “I thought they were supposed to be a top-tier university.” And no, I’m not a Cougar, so don’t think that I’m automatically biased.

Where can I set my avatar?

-David

It’s like comparing restaurants, better restaurants create better food.

I don’t care where you went. Just have a degree, be driven, and have job-relevant experience.

Bottom line is still, where you go to school puts you a step ahead.

Yes, we did have this situation 3 weeks ago. Should we have hired the Harvard grad? And yes, he did graduate from Harvard because we are one of the few firms that actually verifies education on applicants’ resumes.

Like I said, were you asking who Britney’s current boyfriend is?

this fact is given, school puts you a step ahead, and the rest is up to you. so yes, where you go to school does matter and more than likely will shape your career.

Comparing Harvard to WSU is far fetch. I can sleep through WSU classes and graduate with honor.

I agree.

Maybe in some lines of business the school thing is important, especially when you come straight out of it. However, in technology I have hired dozens and interviewed many hundreds of candidates. Assuming they *have* a BSc in something computer related, I’m much more concerned with their experience and their intelligence than anything else.

Intelligence and attitude are my two top things I look for. Then it’s experience (especially if I’m hiring for a senior/lead position). Then it’s school…

What did you ask, who is Britney Spears’ current boyfriend?

School matters in this competitive world, if you believe otherwise, you probably went to a lesser school.

These are the same plans I’m working toward without magic money falling into my lap.

I live in Madrona too. It may be 20-25 minutes in the morning, even in fairly heavy traffic. But the commute back varies HUGELY depending on when you leave. If you leave Redmond at about 4, it commonly takes 30 or 40 minutes. Leave at 5 and it’s more likely to take 45 minutes to an hour.

520 is horrible, but not as bad as some make out. If you’re able to leave by 6:30am and get out at 4pm, then it’s ok.

Just from personal experience interviewing, I’ve found it doesn’t make a "golly" bit of difference where you went to school, but the quality of your education. If I ask the Harvard grad questions and he’s not sure of the answer, yet the WSU grad is answering most of them, guess who I’m going to hire? I also have never asked, nor been asked what my GPA was. Employers actually care about the 10 years real-world experience rather than what I got in my Assembly Language or Electrical Engineering class 15 years ago.

Just my 2 cents,

David

For $34 million it better come with a “Bat Cave” and a butler named Alford.

Then again, San Juan County was not listed in the survey :-(

Are you saying that Seattle Public Schools are more diverse now? If so, I have to disagree. I’m a product of SPS, graduated high school in the late 80s, and every school I attended was less than 50% white. My high school was only 20% white. Yes, I was bussed all twelve years, but I sort of look back on it fondly. When my son was in a SP school a few years ago, the school was something like 90% white. There’s more diversity at his current Catholic school, if you can believe it.

OK Thurston, whatever you say :-)

on January 28th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

“Guy who owns the above house made his money managing retirement homes and healthcare facilities for older folk.”

Assuming this is true, does anyone else find this disturbing?

Problem is it is harder to get into the top universities from those. Those schools max out their quotas pretty quickly, so you end up in the same place as before. It’s fine if you are there to make connections, that’s another story.

As for the free home, it must have views of water and mountain, close enough to downtown and all the nice restaurants. Lake Washington, Madrona, Magnolia…something like that. I am not a big fan of Eastside because it is basically a ‘burb.

If it was simply a matter of finding the most expensive home, then I’d just find the most expensive home in the Puget Sound. If I’m just going to “flip” the house for the cash, then I wouldn’t care if that was in Seattle, Bellevue, or anywhere else

Having said all of that, I’m in the same boat as Jess-Pumpkin, or at least the same flotilla. Even if I got a free house, I’d still have to work, and work for me is south of the city, so I chose South Seattle. Pierce County or Thurston County would probably have been more practical, but, hey, if it’s free I can afford a crash pad in the South Sound.

He he…I had the same question — you can lookup the parcel info — it’s a pretty big parcel so pretty easy to locate — daughter of the owner of Schucks auto and a bunch of other stores.