This suggests one of two contrarian strategies and interestingly on the merits I think both are probably underrated. (Either a) radically decrease your weighting on college or b) intentionally network with college students regardless of your own career stage.)
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You could totally do the second, btw. Put together a list of institutions. Find a go-getter on campus to book you a room. Offer Actual Real World Experience in Industry followed by pizza.
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I had always seen most of the networking benefit of college as residing in the relationships you build as a student, not the networking you do as an alumnus.
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As someone whose successful start-up was driven by starting with relationships from college (and in one case high school), I agree that the primary networking value is student to fellow student. “Old boy” networks and institutional sentiment also matter, but...
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(livelong_friends + valuable_future_business_contacts) / tuition_costs Would be a killer calculation
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That's a fun KPI to try to optimize. OKRs?
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I've normally seen this expressed slightly differently, as "The relative advantage of 'elite' colleges is networking." As in, a degree is a degree no matter where you get it, but if you go to Harvard more of your classmates are more likely to become more influential.
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I’m still kicking myself for not meeting with E. O. Wilson as an undergrad. He was a big supporter of the Harvard Science Review, and I was the editor-in-chief, so I’m sure he would have taken the meeting. Most undergrads have no idea how willing professors are to meet.
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I feel the same way. But I was not told to network at school. Quite the opposite. It wasn’t until after I realized the lost opportunity.
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I can directly attribute like 75%+ of my career (3 jobs!) to my university network. And those were the early-career opportunities, which matter most.
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