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[quote=Anonymous]Both IB and Consulting are fixated on the "prestige" schools. These students are 21, and they have this $160,000 offer dangling plus bonuses.

Additionally, there's a lot of prestige involved in getting the jobs at MBB or Goldman or whatever. And that leads to other opportunities.

I can't blame young people for choosing this. There is serious wealth potential when you choose IB or consulting when you are 21.

Not every student can be an Art History major at Yale and live a la-di-da life. Nor do they want to. These are mostly brass ring students, for better or worse. The Stanford students today are almost always looking for a job on Sand Hill Road. It's not 1994 anymore.

Personally, I think if we had a country where it was possible to live a good and secure and satisfying life in the middle class, talented students would make different choices. But we don't live in that world. And smart young people will choose the money today while they can. Plus, these are prestige fields so it gets the rich kids too.

We created the world we live in. Young people choosing IB or consulting is a very rational response to what we did.

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