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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids wanting to work Wall Street need to watch out they aren't planning on jobs that bots can do in a few years. Strong people skills will be valued over what quanty skills learned in school. 
It's really like planning to go to Hollywood and hang out drinking sodas at Schwab's.  Not what it once was. [/quote]

This is a huge benefit of going to a highly social school like Bucknell where you learn how to network and be part of the "boys club."

Ugh, I can’t imagine aspiring to my child continuing that club. [/quote]

The Bucknell booster watched too many movies about Wall Street.  No one is looking to hire kids because they learned to drink and party in Bucknell's famed frat party scene (finally, a T10 category Bucknell can win!). These jobs are difficult, the competition to get them is inrense, the hours are long, and the go-to schools are either the top schools in the country or are in NYC. And these kids also know how to shmooze (funny how that happens at Princeton and Penn too), but can do it without beer on their breath.[/quote]

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