How much does the college you went to matter 5-10+ years out?
How much does the college you went to matter 5-10+ years out? Do people still care if you went to Wharton vs wherever
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depends on career
prestige whores like investment banking / private equity / research / investment management...lots of people care
quant / sales and trading / tech - not at all
big money with social ladder climbing, a lot.
It depends.
It'll never be the main reason you're not getting promoted.
It matters because your school is a strong, lifelong network that you'll likely tap into when you're trying to source business, deals, investor capital, and whatever else. It also never really stops being a proxy for "intellect" in most of these high prestige jobs. No one's analyzing rankings and sorting schools into tiers though, not when you're 5-10 years out.
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