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[quote=Anonymous]Family members experiences at Top 10 National Universities:

U Chicago--excellent. Offered job at every interview. Went to a hedge fund and made a lot of money over 5 years, then the markets crashed. Had enough funds to retire. Now writing screenplays & producing films in Hollywood/Southern California.

Northwestern--sent out 3 resumes from career center postings; was offered 3 interviews, but received a full tuition scholarship to law school.

Brown--excellent regarding internships and post graduation employment. Know several graduates.

Duke--horrific. Public policy major. Scholarship athlete, frat member, very social, above average appearance, close friends with several classmates with fathers in position to hire into coveted finance positions. Stayed another year to earn a 10 month masters degree from Fuqua. Still horrible. Got nothing. Vacations regularly with wealthy classmates. Nothing. Eventually was able to get a modest paying positions with great benefits, but wants out after a year due to low pay.

The family member's Duke experience prompted me to examine Duke's Fuqua School of Business one year specialty masters degree placements (multiple programs). The results were not good for these masters degree programs.

Friends & family at other universities:

University of Georgia Honors College--outstanding guidance and opportunities. Foundation Fellows was/is great !

University of Alabama Honors College was great. University Fellow had outstanding results.

Dartmouth College--athlete, but below average student. Receives lots of guidance & counseling, however most of it is how to obtain a solid GPA by skirting challenging courses and majors.

University of Georgia non-honors college. Bright, but lazy. Got two very good positions in data analysis through his parents connections. Classmates & frat members all did well. All attended U Georgia virtually tuition free due to statewide lottery funded scholarships.

I could list many other schools, but not family members.

Overall, I am familiar with the situations of many who graduated U Chicago & Northwestern. Would rate both universities job & internship placement as outstanding. Same for U Georgia Honors College and Foundation Fellows. Same for U Alabama University Fellows (ultra-select group above Honors College level). U Alabama Honors College is very good to excellent.

Most of family members close friends attend Ivy League universities. All did well, but unsure about sources of job lead.

Not sure, but I suspect that Northwestern & U Chicago do so well because students are not focused on highly competitive East Coast prestige positions. Willing to work in Chicago & on the West Coast.[/quote]

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