Ivy League son is graduating next month with a rubbish GPA and no FT job offer

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Anonymous wrote:OP why are you being so coy about his major and field? We could give you much better advice if we knew.

They're probably embarrassed that DS wasted his ivy league educational opportunity on something lame and embarrassing like English Lit or Philosophy.

DD is graduating from an Ivy next month and has had no issues finding internships, even during covid, or a post-grad job.

OP's son sounds lazy, tbh. Graduating from an ivy is not enough to secure a job like it used to be decades ago.

+1000

I’m the OP of this post:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1129121.page

And I’ll be the first to say that going to Stanford has done networking wonders for my tech career. But I would never pay for my kids to go to Stanford and then waste their four years of college majoring in something like English or Philosophy.

Internships are the name of the game now in terms of getting a job after graduation! And if a hiring manager is deciding between an English major at Harvard or a CS major at UMD, they’ll go with the latter 99% of the time.

Srly, gd forbid they graduate knowing logic, critical thinking, how to read and process complex information, and being good writers.

PS - if you're interested in law school, philosophy is just about the best major you can have. You come out of that major so skilled at logic and analytic thinking that the LSAT is easy as can be, and law school isn't very hard either. But you're right - def don't let your kids anywhere near philosophy!