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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted a few months ago about my son's looming graduation. Now he is home and moping around. He finally opened up that feels like an idiot, he's overwhelmed and he's humiliated compared to all of his overachieving classmates. He's scared to ask his more connected friends (and their parents) for help because his resume is so vacant and they seem so perfect. He knows he can apply for random entry-level jobs any random college grad can apply for but he feels like he has wasted the opportunity if he settles for anything.

I want to stress his resume is basically vacant outside of the new BA and his GPA is pretty abysmal, so he thinks he's going to be mocked or his resume will just be ignored.[/quote]

Not to be rude, but a huge part of the problem here seems to be that both you and he think there's something really special or different about getting a job out of an Ivy League school than any other school. Sure, there are differences, but get over it.

Yes, he should absolutely contact his career services office.[/quote]

How many 22 year old Ivy League graduates are minted each year? It is pretty rarefied air and some employers do actually pay a hefty premium to employ them.[/quote]

This kind of stupid attitude is how he ended up where he is. [/quote]

It’s not stupid at all.  I know Harvard MBAs are recruited right out of school or at least they used to be.    Do they have recruiters come in to talk to the undergraduates?    Have you thought of graduate school?    (Not law school, there are too many already)[/quote]

Harvard and other top MBAs do not recruit MBAs out of undergrad and has not done so for a long time. It's basically impossible to go straight out of undergrad. The few people I knew who did it were nontraditional undergrads that were also working full time during the day at the same time, or they were part of unusual joint programs where the MBA was combined with another degree like a JD or a PhD.[/quote]

Only weaker mba programs typically take people out of college and weaker mba plus no post college full time work experience is basically a kiss of death for getting a post mba job [/quote]

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