The medical field is different and schools like John Hopkins are an exception but I would be very surprised if any medical institution turned down residents who went to Harvard.
All these ranking anyway are subjective and for someone who went to Harvard and tried to downplay their school comparing it to BU is not very bright.
Sure things vary but hiring managers are not turning down Ivy League grads for State Schools because of a USNews ranking.
Ivy and Ivy Plus school graduates can usually write their own ticket and will get hired over everyone else almost every time unless they absolutely blow the interview.
I cannot imagine being in an interview and trying to convince a hiring manager your Joe State school is better than Harvard because USNews says so. When you have to resort to selling something you already lost.
The conversation behind the scenes for hiring would go like this:
HM 1, "So Bob says he went to ..State School and USNews ranks their ...program well"
HM 2, "...yes but John went to Harvard."
HM 3, "Lets go with John he went to Harvard."
...I have been in these meetings many times.
All these ranking anyway are subjective and for someone who went to Harvard and tried to downplay their school comparing it to BU is not very bright.
Sure things vary but hiring managers are not turning down Ivy League grads for State Schools because of a USNews ranking.
Ivy and Ivy Plus school graduates can usually write their own ticket and will get hired over everyone else almost every time unless they absolutely blow the interview.
I cannot imagine being in an interview and trying to convince a hiring manager your Joe State school is better than Harvard because USNews says so. When you have to resort to selling something you already lost.
The conversation behind the scenes for hiring would go like this:
HM 1, "So Bob says he went to ..State School and USNews ranks their ...program well"
HM 2, "...yes but John went to Harvard."
HM 3, "Lets go with John he went to Harvard."
...I have been in these meetings many times.
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