2024 grads- job placement
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Anonymous
Tell that to all the students at elite schools where most are majoring in Econ, Math, and CS. Very few people have the economic privilege to just blatantly ignore the state of the economy: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/business/gen-z-college-students-jobs.html. It is ridiculous to pretend that students can still go into Medieval Latin and Theatre degrees and end up on top, on average. There's always a hundred edge cases accompanied with millions of failures. Students today are "selling out" and pivoting into financial roles in what they're interested in, and that is fine. |
Anonymous
How exciting for you and your family! I had early anxieties about him leaving the nest, but he's really done well in the environment and has found a ton of opportunity. You're gonna love it! |
Anonymous
Lol. You haven't spent much time in the real world--have you ? |
Anonymous
Nothing to do with majoring in anthro; the Dartmouth kids were hired for their ability to hold their liquor while socializing. |
Anonymous
Nope. Just a working adult who isn't obsessed with elite colleges, has a normal job, and as to deal with entitled idiots on this forum. Some of us come from the "real world" and know that an Amherst degree in general puts you ahead of so much of the applicant pool. |
Anonymous
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Twins graduated this year!
DT1- Graduate of UT for Architecture and went straight into a New York Architecture firm and is doing part time screenwriting work, and loving it DT2- Graduate of Swarthmore Honors in Chemistry is off to Med School in Mass but is first going on an international fellowship Really exciting times for both, but a sad mama here missing them a bit 
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Anonymous
This is some strange urban myth…I guarantee you there are more Dartmouth Econ, Math and other quantitative majors making bank over anthro majors. |
Anonymous
Two things can be true? |
Anonymous
What two things? You really believe any one humanities major at Dartmouth has a pipeline to Wall Street over another? |
Anonymous
What? Part 1:Yet. Lots of Dartmouth anthro majors making bank Part 2:This is some strange urban myth…I guarantee you there are more Dartmouth Econ, Math and other quantitative majors making bank over anthro majors. Neither Parts are mutually exclusive and both can be true, because there's also....lots of Dartmouth alum. |
Anonymous
There really aren’t that many in general because it’s a small school. I would just caution anyone studying anthropology at Dartmouth because they think it is some strange back channel to Wall Street. |
Anonymous
| My DD is considering studying Public Policy at UVA. Do any of you know how recent grads are doing in this field? She is also considering to double major in Public Health. Would that combo open more doors? |
Anonymous
My kid has not graduated yet but is in the Batten school. Has had great internships so i think he’ll do well but beware it is an application based major. Not as competitive as McIntire but still competitive. |
Anonymous
| Brown grad who loved the fun Ivy and graduated in May. Now in PE. |
Anonymous
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2024 jobs update:
After two different ivy parents' weekends, here is a summary: 95 and 98% of 2024 grads had a job when the surveys were done, both 2 months post graduation. Average salaries were highest for Engineering majors(115k, 122k); both said no slow down in hiring in CS. Overall starting salary for all majors was $87k and $89k, not including signing bonuses which averaged 12k. |