Careers after college for athletes who attended top colleges

[Anonymous]

Many in medicine.
My husband went to a top 10 medical school and many of his classmates were former Ivy athletes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, what is with the hate for collegiate athletes around here? From our kids friends who fit into that category, one is playing their sport professionally and the others are either employed in their degree fields, finance, consulting, etc. or in grad school, law school, medical school, etc. Pretty much doing the same things their non athlete friends are doing.

Deferrals just came out. A lot of these recent posts are from spoiled high schoolers who are sulking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do they usually major in?
Probably some easy bullshit majors?

At Ivy’s, athletes take a whole bunch of majors. Go look at rosters. They do all the stuff that their peers do.

I was at the college soccer final four a few years ago and they had an announcement before the games honoring the players who were outstanding students. There was a player for Stanford who had a 3.9 something GPA in engineering physics. Don’t know exactly what that is, but I’m going to guess it’s not any easy major.

[Anonymous]

Of the ones I know that come to mind:

Three surgeons
One law firm partner
One marketing VP at a multinational
One SAHM
One dentist

I could probably think of more if I tried.

[Anonymous]

Yea right suddenly weird trend that the athletes become Doctors and lawyers LOL

[Anonymous]

Is there actual data on OP’s query? Not anecdotes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yea right suddenly weird trend that the athletes become Doctors and lawyers LOL

You sound ignorant.

[Anonymous]

I worked on Wall Street for a long time. There are a lot of people on Wall Street who value college athletes for their competitiveness, ability to multi-task, and assuming they have decent grades, ability to manage academically while balancing the commitment to a college sport. This is true of Division I and Division III athletes.

[Anonymous]

From the folks I know: law and finance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there actual data on OP’s query? Not anecdotes?

There are some stats here for Columbia:

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2020/11/14/for-athletes-career-networks-unlock-a-world-of-opportunity-in-finance-and-consulting/

A quote:

In a Beyond Columbia Survey conducted by the Center for Career Education in 2019, Columbia athletes found careers in financial services and consulting at an 8 percent higher rate than their peers.

There are other stats in the article.

[Anonymous]

Athletes tend to be self motivated, excellent at time management, and learn skills like perseverance, working collaboratively, and are fairly disciplined.

Why wouldn’t they be successful after college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there actual data on OP’s query? Not anecdotes?

There are some stats here for Columbia:

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2020/11/14/for-athletes-career-networks-unlock-a-world-of-opportunity-in-finance-and-consulting/

A quote:

In a Beyond Columbia Survey conducted by the Center for Career Education in 2019, Columbia athletes found careers in financial services and consulting at an 8 percent higher rate than their peers.

There are other stats in the article.

Like, NCAA overall stats, not extremely selective Ivy stats.

[Anonymous]

My cousin was a varsity track athlete at her college. She even made Olympic Trials (she was favored to make the Olympics but a badly timed injury kept her out sadly).

She does actually do something adjacent to her athletics, she's a physical therapist specializing in sports injuries. She's very very good at what she does.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't their major matter more than their sport?

Are they expecting to milk that for the rest of their lives?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there actual data on OP’s query? Not anecdotes?

There are some stats here for Columbia:

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2020/11/14/for-athletes-career-networks-unlock-a-world-of-opportunity-in-finance-and-consulting/

A quote:

In a Beyond Columbia Survey conducted by the Center for Career Education in 2019, Columbia athletes found careers in financial services and consulting at an 8 percent higher rate than their peers.

There are other stats in the article.

Because you can schmooz your way into their jobs. They don't require specific knowledge/training (vs. say engineering).