Carnegie-Mellon Sends Hundreds of Acceptance Letters By Mistake

An anonymous reader writes As reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Carnegie-Mellon University mistakenly sent 800 acceptances for its Master of Science in Computer Science program. They're not saying "computer error," but what are the other explanations? High irony all around. The program accepts fewer than nine percent of more than 1,200 applicants, which places the acceptance level at about a hundred, so they're bad at math, too.

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Yes where your degree is from matters

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Nope. Google does not care about the useless "where you went to school" nonsense.

I don't believe that for a second. It might not be of primary concern but I have zero doubt that if you went to MIT or Carnegie Mellon and graduated with an IT related degree, it WILL factor into the hiring decision at Google.

They want to know you have skills and abilities.

Of course they do. That's precisely why they care whether or not you graduated from a known good training program. It is evidence that you are likely to have the sort of skills they are looking for. They'll test you further but it is a piece of evidence.

Show up with a brilliant invention under your arm and they will gladly take an ITT Tech graduate.

Perhaps but since that doesn't happen very often where you went to school WILL get looked at.