A 2015 answer does not describe 2026. Recency is the qualification, and recent graduates are least likely to volunteer.
Recent graduates are often the most useful Real Ones on the platform, and the least likely to volunteer. Placement realities, teaching quality and campus culture change fast — a 2015 answer does not describe 2026. If you graduated in the last few years, you know things a senior alumnus genuinely cannot tell a student.
Seniority is valuable for questions about long careers. It is much less useful for the questions students actually ask, which are overwhelmingly about now: what this year's placements looked like, whether that department is still strong, what the fees are really like once you add everything up.
Someone ten years out remembers a college that has since changed faculty, curriculum and recruiter mix. You remember the one that exists.
Seniority is not what is being asked for. Recency is, and you have more of it than anyone.
Most students do not either — and those colleges have almost nobody available to ask.
Mixed is the useful kind. Uniformly positive accounts are already abundant.
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You made this decision recently enough to remember what it felt like to not know — which makes you better at answering than someone for whom it is a distant memory. Students consistently find recent graduates easier to ask the slightly embarrassing questions.
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