I'm a degree snob myself and it is not uncommon for me to see thousands of resumes a year. I've never understood some of these on the list. communications people get jobs but very frankly after four years of college the majority of them would have had better jobs had they got a job out of high school and went to night school.
You couldn't be more wrong. You aren't just a degree snob. You're an uneducated degree snob.
My daughter has a degree named on that list from a Big Ten school, held a three month summer highly paid internship with a Forbes 100 company and parlayed that degree and that internship into a sales position with a Forbes 50 company. She's doing better than 80% of her sorority sisters of the same age. In other words, the 80% are working as waitresses or aren't working at all.
There's more to college than just the degree.
There's extracurricular activities, college GPA, initiatives and appearance, among others.
Not everyone fits into that perfect little box.
It would be great if my children were geniuses, attended Harvard and earned MBAs from Wharton but they will do very well in life.
They already are.
I think you're missing the point of the thread. Yes, there is more to college than the degree and yes the degree is what you make of it. Your daughter is obviously exceptional, she would likely be a great success regardless of her degree.
The point is THIS; on their
faces the worthless ( I would never call any degree worthless) degrees mentioned when compared with others are not worth as much. They just aren't.
Engineering is a perfect example of this. A good friend of mine got her computer engineering degree at ISU. She used to make fun of some of the major league nerds in her class with zero social skills but guess what, they all got jobs starting at very nice salaries. Of course she being a cute and motivated sorority girl got a nicer one...
