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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you attend an Ivy school, you need to think strategically and make "connections" that you can use after graduation and later in life.   The joke is on you if you can't. [/quote]

Here’s the deal.  If you went to an Ivy and can’t take advantage of the opportunities that provides without going out of your way to cultivate “connections,” you probably didn’t belong at the Ivy in the first place.  [b]The degree itself opens doors[/b], so you shouldn’t have to have brown-nosed some rich kid there. [/quote]

LOL..... The world doesn't owe you anything with a degree from an Ivy.  Have you ever heard of "it is not what you know but who you know (or who knows you)"?[/quote]

[b]The world doesn't owe you anything, yet the degree itself opens doors that degrees from other schools generally do not.[/b]

But, sure, keep pushing this narrative that you have to be obsequious and suck up to wealthy kids at an Ivy to get anywhere.  It shows your ignorance, or perhaps reveals some personal failures on your part. [/quote]

I guess my DD must have missed the memo.  She recently graduated from Cornell with a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering, and she is still looking for her first job.  She had internships during her junior and senior years in undergrad.  Meanwhile, my niece recently graduated from GMU with a degree in Cybersecurity, and she got picked up by a government contracting company because her bf's father is a Fed SES that has relationships with that contracting company.[/quote]

Can’t you help your kid?? [/quote]

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