[quote=AN][quote=flu]The cost of my ivy league degree was ridiculous but not insanely ridiculous. And to be frank, for engineering… didn’t matter one freaking deal versus any other reputable engineering school, except maybe that I was able to finish in 4 years, versus at the time possibly taking me 6 years at a UC school when they were having budget shortfalls and difficulty for students to get the classes they needed.
For something else, perhaps with a pedigree wall street/ management consulting firm, it might make a bigger difference, simply because those companies don’t recruit from all schools. But then again, sibling went to the best UC school and did just fine with that too. For medical/dental/law, not sure…Some say it matters, some say it doesn’t.[/quote]I would have easily finished in 3 years if I wanted to. But I decided to work ~30 hrs/week and graduate in 4 instead. Which really help me with finding my first job. I was competing against kids who had no or little experience.[/quote]
You graduated at a time when the UC system wasn’t suffering from really constraint budgets… When I was going to school, folks that I knew that went to Berkeley and UCLA engineering couldn’t get the classes they wanted, and when they did, they often complained about class sizes. Funny part is that, I didn’t go to class that often when I was in school.
