<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Justin wrote:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>> (In regard to academia, it's also probably true that not havinga  degree from a </DIV> <DIV>> bicoastal university is fatal for a job at an elite school.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So someone who does their undergraduate work at the UofC and gets their PhD at Madison will be frozen out of a job regardless of their credentials?  I find that hard to believe.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Luke</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>