2024 grads- job placement

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Anonymous wrote:DC goes to a out of state public university and is going to Boston for biotech research with a BS in Biochemistry. 3 summers of internships and 4.0

Great place to go for biotech! Congrats!

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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?

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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?

maybe they are the 1%?

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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?

I'm sure they count fellowships and the borderline poverty programs we call volunteer services such as peace corps in that mix, which overwhelmingly are a mix of people unsure of what they want to do. I also give career centers the eyebrow usually as someone who went to one of the schools with "top" career placement and career office, when, in reality, the students were all very ambitious and hardworking and the career office produced semi-literate workshops on building a linkedin/resume and hosting coffee chats.

Or maybe PP's kid is the 1%. Someone has to be.

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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?

I'm sure they count fellowships and the borderline poverty programs we call volunteer services such as peace corps in that mix, which overwhelmingly are a mix of people unsure of what they want to do. I also give career centers the eyebrow usually as someone who went to one of the schools with "top" career placement and career office, when, in reality, the students were all very ambitious and hardworking and the career office produced semi-literate workshops on building a linkedin/resume and hosting coffee chats.

Or maybe PP's kid is the 1%. Someone has to be.

I wish the schools would break out the grad school vs "employed in a field related to their studies". How do you know kids are accepted and enrolled in grad school and not just thinking about it?

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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?

I'm sure they count fellowships and the borderline poverty programs we call volunteer services such as peace corps in that mix, which overwhelmingly are a mix of people unsure of what they want to do. I also give career centers the eyebrow usually as someone who went to one of the schools with "top" career placement and career office, when, in reality, the students were all very ambitious and hardworking and the career office produced semi-literate workshops on building a linkedin/resume and hosting coffee chats.

Or maybe PP's kid is the 1%. Someone has to be.

I wish the schools would break out the grad school vs "employed in a field related to their studies". How do you know kids are accepted and enrolled in grad school and not just thinking about it?

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What are Think Tanks? What do they do? Can someone name a few?

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy, perfect grades gap year before law school. Founded group at College. Two Congressional internships, think tank intern, and advocacy group intern. Looking for public policy obviously. Rejected from congressional staff he worked for (was in final 3--tough decision etc.). Rejected today from political group. Has one more think tank (highly prestigious) left. Hoping and praying. Seems bad out there.

He should just volunteer on a campaign.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is discouraging! Don't really understand why entry level market is so tough when unemployment is low.

Unemployment has always been low in my life when people desperately need to work to survive, not because the market is any good. Nowadays for an entry level job, it is not uncommon to fight against 1000 other applicants, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to stand out with the insane amount of early career training and work that students are taking up. I was saddened, but not surprised, to hear that all of DC's freshman friend group has internships this summer, and DC was stressed throughout the entire year trying to get a job.

Would you mind sharing which college your DC attends? I’m betting freshmen summer internships were arranged by parents.

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Anonymous wrote:T5 LAC, studied IR and already has an amazing apartment back here in DC!

You skipped over the job part

On the hill as a policy analyst

how does an entry level policy analyst get an "amazing" apt in DC? What is the salary?

If I had to guess, PP’s daughter is on some type of fellowship. DC got a policy analyst/fellowship position out of college and was netting 90k his first 3 years, which isn’t crazy but is a lot entry level and no dependents

90k for a policy analyst? What field?

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Anonymous wrote:What are Think Tanks? What do they do? Can someone name a few?

Heritage Foundation.

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Anonymous wrote:Please share status of recent grad: school, major, offer, obtained via internship, career placement or other network... or still looking.

Hearing it is rough out there.

State flagship
Policy/Poli-Sci/Econ
Internship junior year summer of their own pursuit
85k year big consulting

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Anonymous wrote:What are Think Tanks? What do they do? Can someone name a few?

Brookings
CSIS
Heritage Foundation

There are 20-30 quite large ones in DC, that are basically universities without students and then like 50-100 smaller ones.

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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?

Somewhat truthful. Graduation plans and salaries are self reported. I know both of my kids never reported their plans to their respected school. So the number is a subset of 100%.

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My kids never reported as well. Completely disingenuous of any school to claim this.