[Schiendelman]

Unfortunately, graduating from Harvard is a very good predictor of whether your parents were wealthy, and also that you are less likely to be black.

I worked for a very large job board for the last six years, it's the one you're thinking of. What we found is that the outcomes of paying attention to what school you went to are almost entirely discriminatory, and not predictors of success.

[kailpa1]

That's sad to hear. I guess I'm giving too much credit to schools as a measure of success.

[Schiendelman]

Absolutely. It's correlation, not causation. At least for the most part. The network you build at a very good school exposes you to all those other well connected people, that's the real value.