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Comment author: ChristianKl 18 July 2016 03:29:14PM 0 points [-]

What do you actually want to do with your life? There are careers like politics where personal connection that are gathered during university years are very important.

There are other careers such as starting a startup where personal connections with high status people might not be central and a lot of the YC founders don't have them.

Either there's some sort of self-selection, or do graduates from there have better prospects than graduates of 'University of X, YZ'?

Why "either or"?

Comment author: Arielgenesis 24 July 2016 06:52:04PM 1 point [-]

Post-high education LWers, do you think the place you studied at had a significant effect on your future prospects?

I went to Melbourne University and did an exchange program to UCSD. So I have comparison. I think the distribution of the quality of teaching is sufficiently narrow that it should not play a major factor..

There are careers like politics where personal connection that are gathered during university years are very important.

Depending on the job and your part of the world, personal connection might be a very important factor in carer success. It is more likely that you will would gain more, better personal connection in better university.

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