LinkedIn Anyone?

[taylor]

There will always be a disadvantage with ANY unknown school, but it's important to keep it in perspective. In a post here a long time ago, I mentioned an expensive local school that is supposedly very prestigious (well, they think they're important even if no one has heard of them.) The school is Colorado College and here is a link to their tuition page, which at a bare minimum will cost you 44k per year excluding additional fees: Tuition & Fees Depending on how long it takes you to finish, this means that this almost completely unknown degree will cost you 176-264k without taking into account books or other expenses. I guarantee that the person interviewing you has NOT heard of this school and there are a ton of similar unknown, yet costly colleges out there. I think that a Big 3 degree is WAAAAAAAY better than these options.

Yes there are many expensive B&M schools that not many have heard of. Wow Colorado College is a ripoff! However, if I was a Colorado College grad, for some reason I think my degree would just go under the radar during an interview. Maybe I'm wrong?

My suspicion is that your school didn't "look good" only because you were uncomfortable talking about it. I would tend to bet that answering confidently that TESC is a state college in NJ would easily answer the question without any doubts.

Because of my sales background like yourself, I'm good at reading people's mannerisms and body language. I usually can tell when someone is serious and when someone is just stroking me. When the first interviewer mentioned that she never heard of TESC. She wasn't asking me because she had a sincere interest in TESC. She wanted me to prove to her that the school was legit. The second interviewer I responded with "TESC was going to merge with Rutgers." That answer must've caught him off guard because he told me "I love the Rutgers basketball team!" Yeah right??? Rutgers has a crappy basketball team, never has been good. But surprisingly with that company I did get a 2nd interview because of my good looks =)