Giving Notice: Why the Best and the Brightest Leave the Workplace and How You Can Help Them Stay

9.4. Diploma Justice: Why Judging a Candidate by His or Her School Can Be a Mistake

Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton. Children of a certain income and education level grow up knowing about those schools, understanding the subtle rankings between a top-tier and a second-tier university. But this isn't obvious information, especially for disadvantaged students who rarely receive the important counseling to understand that the university they select when they're sixteen years old is going to affect their career opportunities and salary potential for the rest of their lives. It's more likely that other, stronger influences affect their decisions, such as family. I frequently encounter the following situations with students in the Level Playing ...