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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’ll pick up all the quant skills he needs when he attends IR/PP grad school like sais (if he can get in)

Real IR jobs in this town are indexed pretty heavily on prestige so the lower ranked the school your kid goes to, the more “hard skills” he needs to compete vs HYP/t20 grads

Or he needs to luck out and work for the right principal on a campaign like Tommy vietor

So to get this straight, your kid doesn’t have language skills and doesn’t want to take math classes.

the other option is they can get into a t6 law school

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OP here. Wouldn’t DS need to work for at least a few years before entering an IR masters program? Financially
he will, at least :-).

DS isn’t shying away from the language, he is in his 8th sem of Spanish now (he started at level 4) and will study in Chile in the fall, but he doesn’t want to take Spanish for the remainder of his semesters which I think he said means he won’t meet the language requirement for the IR major so it isn’t uncommon at his college for
students interested in IR who do not want to take foreign language every semester to instead major in poli sci or econ and focus on the int’l classes in those majors.

He also took Calc 1 and Calc 2 as a first year, but he wasn’t interested to move on to MV and Linear Algebra this year - that’s not uncommon for a non math major, I would think.

We just want him to have at least some “hard” skills to market himself with for jobs. We want DS to major in what appeals to him (spouse and I were pushed into pre-professional majors by each of our parents and don’t want to do the same), but he will need a job in a couple of years (and an internship next summer hopefully). I do agree with the professor, he’ll hopefully develop strong writing and analytical skills in an IR or poli sci major which are also very useful. [/quote]

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