2024 grads- job placement

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please share status of recent grad: school, major, offer, obtained via internship, career placement or other network... or still looking.

Hearing it is rough out there.

State flagship
Policy/Poli-Sci/Econ
Internship junior year summer of their own pursuit
85k year big consulting

Congratulations to your child!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is discouraging! Don't really understand why entry level market is so tough when unemployment is low.

Unemployment has always been low in my life when people desperately need to work to survive, not because the market is any good. Nowadays for an entry level job, it is not uncommon to fight against 1000 other applicants, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to stand out with the insane amount of early career training and work that students are taking up. I was saddened, but not surprised, to hear that all of DC's freshman friend group has internships this summer, and DC was stressed throughout the entire year trying to get a job.

Would you mind sharing which college your DC attends? I’m betting freshmen summer internships were arranged by parents.

All the freshmen we know had internships/jobs this summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ivy, perfect grades gap year before law school. Founded group at College. Two Congressional internships, think tank intern, and advocacy group intern. Looking for public policy obviously. Rejected from congressional staff he worked for (was in final 3--tough decision etc.). Rejected today from political group. Has one more think tank (highly prestigious) left. Hoping and praying. Seems bad out there.

Good luck -- it's def harder to land the FT job than Hill internships, which are mostly nepo hires.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock

How does art history lead to investment banking? This is not a snark comment. I'm genuinely curious as that would not be my expectation (though I know little about either as a career and college major).

[Anonymous]

He’s in Sales/Custoner Service

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock

How does art history lead to investment banking? This is not a snark comment. I'm genuinely curious as that would not be my expectation (though I know little about either as a career and college major).

The two most successful people in finance that I know were an English major and a French literature major

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock

How does art history lead to investment banking? This is not a snark comment. I'm genuinely curious as that would not be my expectation (though I know little about either as a career and college major).

No it's a great question and strange move. He got into art consulting and leveraged the position to get into an investment banking internship. He definitely wants to go back into the art history sphere, likely philanthropy if he can snag it.

He graduated three months ago, got into “art consulting”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC goes to a out of state public university and is going to Boston for biotech research with a BS in Biochemistry. 3 summers of internships and 4.0

Is she going to Boston or Cambridge? Did they help her with housing? Sounds interesting even if she starts at the bottom. Nice job!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock

Was DS1 an athlete? The athlete SLAC liberal arts major to IB path seems quite common.

DS1 was not an athlete, can hardly toss a ball to save his life

Insulting question. Your son got his job by being extremely smart and hardworking. Sports are children’s games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is discouraging! Don't really understand why entry level market is so tough when unemployment is low.

Unemployment has always been low in my life when people desperately need to work to survive, not because the market is any good. Nowadays for an entry level job, it is not uncommon to fight against 1000 other applicants, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to stand out with the insane amount of early career training and work that students are taking up. I was saddened, but not surprised, to hear that all of DC's freshman friend group has internships this summer, and DC was stressed throughout the entire year trying to get a job.

Would you mind sharing which college your DC attends? I’m betting freshmen summer internships were arranged by parents.

Penn. Nothing “arranged” just the school’s hustler culture.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock

How does art history lead to investment banking? This is not a snark comment. I'm genuinely curious as that would not be my expectation (though I know little about either as a career and college major).

No it's a great question and strange move. He got into art consulting and leveraged the position to get into an investment banking internship. He definitely wants to go back into the art history sphere, likely philanthropy if he can snag it.

He graduated three months ago, got into “art consulting”?

I think students today have more internship/coop positions than the past. PP’s child may have just done more than 1 job over 4 years

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC goes to a out of state public university and is going to Boston for biotech research with a BS in Biochemistry. 3 summers of internships and 4.0

Is she going to Boston or Cambridge? Did they help her with housing? Sounds interesting even if she starts at the bottom. Nice job!

Weird comment. Where else should a new grad start but at the bottom?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DS just graduated from Uchicago in CS and Econ, currently looking for work and failing.

We went to the summer open house at Chicago last Friday and the admissions director said that 99% of the class was employed or matriculating to graduate school AT GRADUATION this year.
The admissions director reiterated this several times "not 6 months following graduation, AT graduation, 99% of our graduating seniors knew what they are doing this coming fall."

Is this not truthful?

I'm sure they count fellowships and the borderline poverty programs we call volunteer services such as peace corps in that mix, which overwhelmingly are a mix of people unsure of what they want to do. I also give career centers the eyebrow usually as someone who went to one of the schools with "top" career placement and career office, when, in reality, the students were all very ambitious and hardworking and the career office produced semi-literate workshops on building a linkedin/resume and hosting coffee chats.

Or maybe PP's kid is the 1%. Someone has to be.

My son worked on Boy Scout camp after college graduation. I am sure his school counted him as employed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD '24 graduated from HYP with a physics major and...is currently teaching at a boarding school, because she couldn't find work. 4.0 with a lot of research and tech skills but just couldn't get anything. Most of her friends are off to med school or fellowships, so she's feeling a bit distraught. I feel horrible and like I failed to support, but I know she'll figure it out.

DS ‘24 graduated with chem degree and will be teaching hs chemistry at a private school (while getting a paid-for masters from Penn) and I am exceptionally proud. This was his ( and my) first choice! More smart people should go into education

Who is paying for the masters?

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Jesuit university, mid-range (not top 5)
Finance major, magna cum laude
Received offer at internship end last summer (before junior year)
Now in a three month training program before becoming a financial analyst
Found his internships through his own networking - was not at a target school where the top firms recruit
He says there are kids in his training class who were liberal arts majors at Ivy institutions, and they are being taught the same content he learned in finance class.