Did going to U of T give you an advantage in terms of getting hired?

That assumes that you are even successful with the online resume black hole in the first place, but realistically speaking your chances are greatly improved with favorable logistics. St. George is the only campus with engineering? If Google or someone is going to have a career fair presence or recruiting event, it's going to be in downtown Toronto. I suppose as a student in the UofT system, you could attend those events, but logistics are typically so unfavorable that people tend to stick to their own campus. I did see a McMaster student one time at a Waterloo recruiting event, but it is doubtful that he was able to get anything out of the session given his work experience and the stiff hiring bar of a Big 4 company.

Which brings up another point. It's usually fairly obvious where you go based on the quality of your resume, as the resume of someone who passed a higher academic bar cannot be so easily emulated by someone from say, UTSG. It's also a problem of asymmetric information. St. George students have better intel on how to apply to those jobs, and Waterloo has even better intel compared to the St. George kids. This information manifests itself in greatly improved resumes and taking the proper steps (like going to recruiting events) to contest for jobs.

I would definitely say though that if a UTSG student can pass the interviews, then it doesn't really matter which campus he or she attends. Realistically though, that's kind of a hard thing to picture if you understand the differences in academic standards between the schools. It is possible that someone could have improved greatly between the ages of 18 to 21 (assuming that an individual failed to meet the academic bar of St. George or Waterloo), but that just seems rather unlikely to me, based on my own experiences.

Also, something interesting I found.

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