Originally posted by Pre98:

Pure arrogance. edit: on the recruiters part.



What Pre98 said is true. Hiring criterias should be based on knowledge, skills and abilities + intelligence. Higher GPA scores have a correlation to the intelligence of the person regardless of where he/she earns it.

Screening someone out based on where they earn their degree limits your pool of talent. Instead, you should hire someone based on those criterias mentioned above.

Here's why
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Intelligence:
Teach an average person to do a task and he'll master it in a few months.
versus.
Teach an intelligent person to do a task and he'll master it in weeks. In addition to that, he may also come up with better method of doing the task instead of the method he was taught.

Knowledge, Skills & Ability vs. Experience:
Experience no longer holds that much value in today's world. Look at the world of sports today, younger newer athletes are just beating older opponents. The top two tennis players are Roger Federer (24yrs), Rafa Nadal (20yrs). They are beating more experienced players because of their skills and ability.

In my CIS undergrad program. There were constant challenges among students and professors. I still remember one challenge where we were told to write a program. The program that sorts the data fastest wins the challenge. Our professor has many years experience writing programs as he has been teaching for a while. However, a student actually won the challenge as he had the knowlege, skills and ability to write a more efficient program.