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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock
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How does art history lead to investment banking? This is not a snark comment. I'm genuinely curious as that would not be my expectation (though I know little about either as a career and college major). [/quote]

Perhaps the kid is just a good writer and critical thinker and it came out in networking?

That school also places well on Wall Street so it could be that.

Not much competition given the school is so small.

Liberal arts colleges do extremely well for placement on Wall Street. much less internal competition. [/quote]

There's also the fact that alternative investments such as art are popular with rich folks.  So you get the usual strong skills from of writing and critical thinking from an LAC plus some specialized knowledge that is likely rare among investment bankers.  It may help in helping pick art and just being an 'interesting' person to rich clients if you are in a client-facing role.   Billionaire art investors often hire art historians to build their collections and manage the documentation and showing of works.  I personally know two who have this job.

This is more of a stretch--but art history involves a lot of pattern recognition of things that are hard to quantify like style (assessments often involve looking at relatively unknown art works and needing to write an argument for what period, location, artist etc. you think it's from and why)--I wonder if that taps into a valued skill now that so much of what investment bankers used to do is automated.[/quote]

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