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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent, this mindset is a huge turn off.  Look how many kids never had an interest in it, and are just following the Pied Piper.  My friend's DD who just started at Columbia is staying up all night filling out finance club applications.  She had zero interest before.  My main concern is where are the kids who think independently and are not afraid to go against the tide?  Who have a strong set of ethics and intellectual curiosity?  This trend does not bode well, in addition to all the other messed up things going on right now.  [/quote]

My kid is at Dartmouth and everyone there is also filling out finance club apps. Our kid called last night and asked us "should I be doing this?" We said no!

The pressure is high at these schools.  it feels like 90% of the kids are pursuing economics/finance.  [/quote]

At Dartmouth? They don’t even have a business degree.LOL Cornell and Wharton is where the Ivy business kids go. [/quote]

Intelligent banks don't just hire undergrad business majors. They hire smart kids and train them themselves. I actually often preferred to stay away from the undergrad business majors. This mentality that you must major in "business" undergrad to work on Wall Street is completely incorrect.[/quote]

This. Top banks hire Econ or math majors all the time. Wharton UG degree fwiw is a Bachelors of science in economics. not an undergrad "business" degree. Most UG "business" degrees ie BBA and similar are not well respected by the top places[/quote]

The reason they are not "well respected" is just school-based name prestige and alumni connections.  The schools that have high SAT/high GMAT kids and lots of rich kids are "well respected".

I was an economics major (considered a BBA but loved my liberal arts electives too much) and I have a top MBA.

People like to b.s. about how dumbed down a BBA curriculum is...but really it's all about the quality of student.  Between business classes and humanities classes, I've had equally deep in-class intellectual experiences.

As the quality of b-school students at solid schools has increased, so has the depth of the education.

A lot of old prejudices trace back to the days when rich white college grad men were pretty much guaranteed a job regardless of what they studied in college.  And hereditary money was cooler than self-made money.[/quote]

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