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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get a liberal arts degree (economics and something soft) from the highest ranked school you can.

Recruiting for finance, consulting, and corporate /strategy roles are much much easier if you are in English and economics major coming from Rice or Vanderbilt or Emory compared to CS at Purdue…..

Ask around people!!![/quote]

This. College is not trade school, despite the pervasive and lingering lower middle class belief to the contrary. [/quote]
This is 2024, not 1954, despite how some elite people want to think it is.  College is no longer about a liberal art education, and then get some job because you have a degree. That's 1954 thinking.  This is not how it works today, in 2024.[/quote]

The same people whose family money and connections allowed them to view college in 1954 as a place for kids to discover themselves still views college that way. The difference is all of the middle class and even upper middle class kids whose families don't have enough money to let their kid spend 350k on a history degree in the vague hope that some conglomerate will hire them into a management training program [/quote]

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