You have two candidates in front of you. One went to Harvard, and the other graduated from the University of Pensacola. Easy choice, right? Obviously the Ivy League degree is better, right?
Not always. An Ivy League degree does not guarantee a top notch education. for instance, there are examples of people who were accepted to a top school based on being a “legacy,” spent four years drinking at night and doing the absolute minimum to get by in the day — and wind up with a degree from Harvard. Does that necessarily mean they learned anything? Not really. All that proves is they performed certain tasks to get the embossed piece of paper.
Now, the student who went to the University of Pensacola might have come from a disadvantaged family, worked two jobs to pay for school, participated in several on-campus organizations, and graduated at the top of his or her class.
Now, with that in mind, who do you want to hire?
Sure, an argument can be made that the courses at Harvard are more advanced and it’s much harder to simply pass at that university rather than excel at a state college. The reality is that you are looking for a quality of character that a person who “just got by” at any college does not possess.
It’s not the value of the school you should be looking at, it’s the value of the education.
