Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
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Anonymous
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Worked really hard throughout school, >15 APs, went to T20 colleges with GPA > 3.9 in college.
Did they ever have time developing the personality or sense of authority needed for leadership? If so, how? |
Anonymous
| Many end up in advertising (Google, Facebook, etc.) |
Anonymous
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Super high achieving son. Maxed out grades in HS, ACT and SAT. MIT grad.
Been at a FAANG now for 4 years…..makes great money, successful in his career, but has no life and is completely miserable and thinking about quitting and going back to Grad School. My high achieving daughter high stats (1500, 3.8UW). Cornell Nolan grad. Been working at a boutique investment firm in NY for 4 years and last year took an amazing offer to work with investments at Family Office and she is making more than my son, is much happier and actually have a life outside of work. |
Anonymous
"Small" for those of you that don't graduate from MIT. |
Anonymous
DC is a very high stats kid (1580 SAT, 4.0 unwgpa magnet program and currently 4.0 senior in college). They told me that they don't want to work crazy hours when they get a job. They want a life outside of work even if that means that they don't get paid that much. Both DH and I have decent work/life balance, UMC. That's what DC wants. |
Anonymous
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My DS was a high achieving student in high school (13 APs, 1500+ SAT, 4.0 uw). He ended up at one of WASP and did very well there as a humanities student. Now a PhD student at an Ivy.
Anecdotally, it seems that many graduates of his college either go into finance/consulting or head to grad school, which is a mostly mix of MD, JD, PhD, and some MEng. Some get MBAs too, but after working for a bit. |
Anonymous
| My nephews, with those stats, ended up in IB and the AI department of a FAANG. |
Anonymous
| Wall Street |
Anonymous
It’s pretty sad that this is where our supposed best and brightest end up. |
Anonymous
They like money. Plenty of bright kids end up in medicine, other STEM fields, and even teaching. |
Anonymous
| DC is Stanford grad, but didn't have 3.7+ GPA (had way too much fun). Working as a SWE at a FAANG making lots of $. |
Anonymous
Yep! Totally agree. "Best and brightest" get to be a cog in the corporate wheel fighting for survival and eventually layed off because their jobs move to India and are partially done by AI.....especially when they wrote part of that AI code. |
Anonymous
| SpaceX |
Anonymous
They began that process in high school and their ivy pushed them to develop it even more and reach for big goals. Into a T3 law school. Almost every one of the ivy peers had distinct interests and high levels of motivation in addition to smarts before they arrived. None of them are recruited athletes. Med school, funded grad school or prestigious fellowships, various job offers are the norm among the senior friend/housemate group and the significant others group |
Anonymous
| I know quite a few went to Jane Street. A few years later they were laid off as the turnover rate is sky high. Then teach at high schools. |