As a recent college grad who went to a community college and then a run-of-the-mill state school, my experience and general impression from my peers was that <i>unless</i> you shotgun as many job applications as possible, you&#x27;re probably not going to hear back from anyone.<p>My own hypothesis is that most companies are so obsessed with a potential &quot;false positive&quot; hire that they&#x27;re perfectly okay with not investing in a new graduate.  Thus, we have to send out 10+ job applications per week, otherwise we end up as yet another one of the millions of unemployed, college-educated young adults.<p>It&#x27;s not totally awful (I found a great job as a result of my career fair), but unless a company is specifically recruiting from your university it&#x27;s pretty much a given that you won&#x27;t be offered an interview, let alone a job.