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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one “receives” lucrative banking job after graduation.  You have to “seek” it and that even applies to recruited athletes, too. Yes, sales and trading desks at major IBs are favorably disposed to recruited athletes from Ivy schools but one has to actually seek it and not passively “receive” it by the career center. The idea that jobs are offered up like a box of chocolates by career center is f’n crazy. What firm wants to hire an entitled person with unrealistic expectations and zero initiative? Prior post has to be fake because no parent can be that clueless, can they?[/quote]

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Yes, some do receive lucrative IB offers before, at, and/or after graduation. Happens for athletes, family connections,and frat brothers with Dads in a position of authority at an IB or other financial firm.

Sorry to say, but you are the clueless one. [/quote]

This does not happen in 2024.  True 25 years ago.  Today, anyone “receiving” this kind of job it’s typically a non-substantive client-facing role that is offered as a favor to a candidate that would never be on real long-term track.  This kind of person is gone within 18 - 24 months because they were never a real hire, anyway.  Ok, they make some money in the 18 - 24 months but they get weeded out pretty quickly and suffer from massive imposter syndrome.  Follow these people through time and you will see.  It’s a curse, not a blessing because most of them are stranded by 28.[/quote]

Maybe some of what you wrote is accurate, but I assure you that this system is alive and well in 2024 (at least at Dartmouth College & at Duke University).

Can you elaborate on your statement: "stranded by {age} 28" ?[/quote]

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