NP here. This made me laugh as my ex-boyfriend went to Fitchburg and then onto University of Florida for his grad degree in chemical engineering. Pretty successful guy with a pretty successful career at very big well known companies. |
It's very tough now to get internships and jobs. The landscape has changed and success stories from the past (even as little as a year ago) aren't so helpful. |
Agreed. My uncle's business is far from a tech start-up. He's in the construction industry. He started with one crew, took accounting classes at night at a community college, and built a substantial business. He never got better than a C in high school. There will still be demand for these types of businesses in a post-AI world. |
Every single college and high school friend of DC’s has a paid (or govt unpaid) internship/paid research related to the field they want to go into. All rising juniors. It is not harder than any other year to get something. Just many not the first choice. |
We all do. But happy doesn’t pay the bills. Financial stress is a lot on relationships. “Kids these days” who are raised with regular trips to Starbucks and have door dash are not used to having to feel uncomfortable being poor. I was poor and my kids are not. I worry about how happy they’ll be when they’re on their own if they aren’t doing well financially. We are trying to keep them humble, but it’s hard when it feels like all socializing takes place somewhere that costs money….they don’t want to bring their friends to my house for pizza anymore 🤣 |
Definitely Penn my kid knows two thus summer, 2 last summer |
(Penn engineering students and CAS not wharton) |
+10 |
Were there any interns from lower tier schools, or just the well known and well respected ones you mentioned? |
In fairness, this is really not factual. You need to look at the stats of that particulars school's placement at Top Companies as a whole. Just not one anecdotal story. |
+100. Reminds me of my friends who got degrees from Ball State University located in Muncie, Indiana. All doing fabulously. |
They cast a wide net. From consulting, to street finance/ib, etc. We dont like it. we think they equally smart and qualified. But the fact is that my Ivy kid had doors opened and opportunities that my t50 kid didnt. I’m sure he will be fine and might eventually end up the same or better, but the starting point is not equal. People here can say what they want, we are experiencing this right now. |
I graduated from UMD. But to the kids with the stats to get into schools like Gtech (12% acceptance rate) and UVA (15% acceptance rate), UMD is definitely a back up. |
Glad it's going well for them. I know quite a few who couldn't find internships or had theirs rescinded. And there are new articles everyday about the difficult job market for new college grads. |
job market getting much better. But, not where it needs to be yet. |