malaki ba talaga effect kung saan ka nagtapos

[niky]

For me, as long as it's not a school based inside a cafeteria (there was one Nursing or PT school that did that... amazing how long they lasted before they were padlocked!) or some other dubious fly-by-night operation, school matters less than what I see the applicant can do.

The school you graduated from indicates (based on the school's entry requirements) that you are at least of x intelligence. But it doesn't tell me anything about your work ethic or your actual ability, both creative and whatnot. There are some graduates of big schools that have the brains, but not the work ethic, and that's what counts most in an organization.

Plus, big schools have an unfair advantage... they have the pick of the best students in the country... and if your IQ is just 1 point too low, you can't get in. A lot of great students get bypassed this way.

I have a relative who wasn't passed on to high school in Ateneo because of their ridiculous entrance exams... (entrance for prep, grade one, high school... what next? Entrance exams per semester?)... what's he doing now? Now that he's over the pain of not finishing with his friends, he's an entrepreneur, managing his own school.

It's not where you've graduated, or have had the luck of graduating from, that matters...

It's how you take that gift and use it, that does.

There's something to be learned from a lot of high-powered CEOs. A lot of them were drop-outs or losers in school... why? Because book smarts doesn't equal street smarts, and a glowing academic record can tell you a person is a brain, but it doesn't tell you how they cope with adversity.

If someone manages to come from horrible high school grades and still manages to graduate Cum Laude from College... that's probably the man you want for the job.