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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You also don’t even know how long the university has been around. You say it changed in 2000 or 2010, but was a certain way for 50 years beforehand. You realize it was founded in 1890, not 1950 or 1960, right?

If you’re going to troll, at least get your facts right.[/quote]

Going back up to 50 years was obviously in reference to baby boomer college grads who now control Fortune 500 c-suites, corporate recruitment, and the donor class. Baby boomer Ivy MIT Duke UVA Michigan Cal alums control every facet of global industry. In comparison, very few Chicago alums do (as they had too many quirky weirdos and students who pursued academia).

So while recent efforts have been made to funnel more UC kids into high-status high-pay tracks, Chicago obviously wouldn't have anywhere near the foothold their peers have. Therefore Chicago kids are at a disadvantage in high prestige gigs as the tracks aren't plowed, UC alums aren't there [in high enough numbers] to look out.[/quote]

There's truth in this.  What it ignores though is that the UChicago alumni who did go into  finance or consulting did extremely well, e.g. founders, managing partners.  And that doesn't even include the Booth alumni advantage that Career Services actively works .  The reality today is that client facing roles are increasingly required to also be quantitatively comfortable.  And who has the rep for being comfortable with sophisticated numerical/data analysis and proven record to learn and work hard within a firehose environment ...MIT and UChicago.  Kids from these schools who are the mainstream personable types that want finance and consulting are closing the deal on the opportunities they want.  It's a valid point about the old plowed paths.  The question is do they kids want to follow those any more?  Look at how early the BBs have started recruiting in reaction to no longer drawing the candidates they want.  Parallel to Stanford's experience, SV is calling hard.[/quote]

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