[me2i81]

In terms of actual quality, that's probably true. I've worked with people who absolutely won't hire anyone who didn't go to one of the "top 4", and that's the sort of mindset I was addressing. It's not an "ivy only" mindset, it's a "Stanford-Berkeley-MIT-CMU only" (and sometimes not even CMU and Berkeley) mindset.

[ghc]

Ah, the hiring equivalent of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". I've seen the same with people only hiring Harvard Business School grads. I figure school-based hiring practices like that are a pretty good indication of poor management quality.