Having worked in finance for years, the two predictors of success in finance are a wealth of unearned self confidence and a dearth of morality. They don’t care if you’re smart except in the quant houses but consulting and traditional investment banking and trading firms just want someone willing to sell their mother to make a buck. |
That is just not true. The elite jobs, those that are facing the public are filled by all kinds of Ivy no stem students!!! The back office jobs (where there is little chance of promotion or seeing the public) are filled by STEM and state U. You don’t get to make millions 5 years out on that track. |
Columbia has financial engineering major. I believe NYU and UC Berkeley also has similar major. |
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Finance jobs are still available to stem majors. I think at Columbia, a student starts out with typical engineering prerequisites. By junior year when engineering students are choosing their speciality, finance is one of the options along with the usual CS, chemical, electrical, material engineering. |
You honestly don't sound like someone with a clue about elite jobs of any sort. |
Really! Goldman is run by a Harvard history major;Facebook was founded by a Harvard psychology major who won classics awards in high school. |
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Zuckerberg did not graduat from Harvard. Harvard needs smart people. Smart ones don’t need Harvard. |
And how is that relevant to this post? He went to Harvard and was not a STEM major. It did not prevent him from becoming the richest man in the world after dropping out. But without Harvard there would have been no Facebook. So it mattered a ton. He had his cofounders and a bunch of Harvard students that used the first iteration of Facebook that was open to Harvard students. There are tons of non STEM majors at Facebook, Uber and Google. They are also running tons of private equity firms and Wall Street firms. The “soft majors” do OK. |
Z attended Philips Exester private boarding school as a High schooler. Philips used Facebook prototype within its campus for students to communicate. If Harvard used it after Z arrived, it was behind Phillips, a high school. Z never graduated from Harvard. It must have been a waste of time for Z to leave without a degree. |
| This thread is really stupid. |
A thread is made up of people who come in like you to chime in. |
That’s not the name of the school and your version of the this story is not correct. The founders of Facebook were his Harvard roommates. Widely know facts, well documented and with stupid moving featuring the story. If you don’t like Harvard don’t go or send your kid and stop posting about its admission policies. |
That Z got his FB idea from Phiilips high school is common knowledge. https://www.google.com/amp/s/readwrite.com/2009/05/10/mark_zuckerberg_inspiration_for_facebook_before_harvard/amp/ |