2024 grads- job placement

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Yes this is a lie. That is way too high!

m

My UChicago grad did not have a job. So maybe they are in the 1%?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Yes this is a lie. That is way too high!

m

My UChicago grad did not have a job. So maybe they are in the 1%?

I received resume from a 2024 Uchicago grad just yesterday looking for a job. So that makes it two grads (unless I received a resume from your kid!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Yes this is a lie. That is way too high!

m

My UChicago grad did not have a job. So maybe they are in the 1%?

I received resume from a 2024 Uchicago grad just yesterday looking for a job. So that makes it two grads (unless I received a resume from your kid!).

Dad ? Is that you ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:This thread needs more responses.

Are the only kids getting jobs in CS and Engineering? Pretty depressing that we are getting ready to shell out our savings so kid can go back to grad school that we can't afford to help with. I guess that's how colleges claim "99%" employed or going to grad school. There should be a requirement to break out employment as well as employed in field of study.

My creative kid landed a job with a marketing agency after an internship.

Good to hear! anyone else with nonCS/Engineering?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread needs more responses.

Are the only kids getting jobs in CS and Engineering? Pretty depressing that we are getting ready to shell out our savings so kid can go back to grad school that we can't afford to help with. I guess that's how colleges claim "99%" employed or going to grad school. There should be a requirement to break out employment as well as employed in field of study.

My creative kid landed a job with a marketing agency after an internship.

Good to hear! anyone else with nonCS/Engineering?

DC was an English/Anthropology major and works for Market Research! She had a thesis that was very specific to corporate communication and understanding financial markets through cultural signals (she's an econ minor with enough credits for a major) at an LAC. Very proud!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No job as a Computer Science and Philosophy double major with 2 previous internships from CMU. Very very disappointing.

Is it CMU SCS? Some people claim they are CMU CS, but maybe not SCS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No job as a Computer Science and Philosophy double major with 2 previous internships from CMU. Very very disappointing.

Is it CMU SCS? Some people claim they are CMU CS, but maybe not SCS

Update. DC is in SCS. Didn't even know there was another way to 'claim' CS.

[Anonymous]

On a related note, grad admissions were much harder this year with more applications. Schools noted they had more applicants because of the tight job market.

[Anonymous]

Republicans are going to tank the economy we are already seeing a poor job market and layoffs more to come starting October one

Thanks cult idiots you did this

[Anonymous]

The comments above me are incredibly inappropriate for this thread.
Reeling it back in, DC studied Chemistry and her junior year internship was at the USGS doing a ton of computational work that led to her current job as a software engineer at FAANG, Phi Beta Kappa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both DS and DD recently graduated on May '24 along with three other nieces and nephews:

- DS graduated from Ivy and still looking for a job, had internships in both sophomore and junior year,

- DD graduated from Duke and is still looking for a job,

- Nephew #1 graduated from JMU. Received a job offer from a financial service because he was an athlete at JMU, and that job via athletic alumni,

- Nephew #2 graduated from UCLA; got a job offer from one of the political donor connections because he played music at one of the private fund-raising events, and made friends with several young people at the event. Their parents are rich political donors,

Niece #1 graduated from UNC; got a job offer as a government contractor PM job because her father is a SES in the government,

Both DS and DD are still looking. Without "networking" with decision makers, it is difficult to land a job these days. They both now realized that it is not the school you attended, it is who you know that matters. FWIW, nephew #1 is trying to leverage his skills to get both DS and DD a job where he is at.

Hahaha the ethically challenged SES put pressure on the gov contractor to hire his kid

Disgusting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both DS and DD recently graduated on May '24 along with three other nieces and nephews:

- DS graduated from Ivy and still looking for a job, had internships in both sophomore and junior year,

- DD graduated from Duke and is still looking for a job,

- Nephew #1 graduated from JMU. Received a job offer from a financial service because he was an athlete at JMU, and that job via athletic alumni,

- Nephew #2 graduated from UCLA; got a job offer from one of the political donor connections because he played music at one of the private fund-raising events, and made friends with several young people at the event. Their parents are rich political donors,

Niece #1 graduated from UNC; got a job offer as a government contractor PM job because her father is a SES in the government,

Both DS and DD are still looking. Without "networking" with decision makers, it is difficult to land a job these days. They both now realized that it is not the school you attended, it is who you know that matters. FWIW, nephew #1 is trying to leverage his skills to get both DS and DD a job where he is at.

Hahaha the ethically challenged SES put pressure on the gov contractor to hire his kid

Disgusting

I've seen SES card play many times in my 30+ years of gov't contracting.

OP - what did you DS and DD major in?

[Anonymous]

DC graduated from UVA - CS.

Was aiming for Google, Amazon etc.

Nothing materialized. Barely landed a job at local defense contracting firm. Good pay. But still very jarring experience.

And yes, UVa played no role in getting the job. Basically he was a graduate in CS. That's about it.

Mentioning that to folks who are hyper focused in getting their kid into UVA/UMd/VT

[Anonymous]

DS got an Art history degree from a top school. He knew it wasn't the most helpful, so he took a year off to work on a CFP program hosted by a relatively mid-level state university. He now works at Apple as an analyst.

[Anonymous]

t10, niece, landed a think tank job in an east coast urban area, pub policy major. Connection was through an alum network. Job secured 2 weeks after graduation. 85k, bonus potential to 110k possible