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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I left home in the late 1990s for Harvard, 1000 miles away. Sounds like we ran in different circles.

I was w econ/stats major people plus those from my foreign language major.

And I befriended a ton of Intl people via being neighbors with the soccer team.

Most of my close friends did banking, consulting or start ups. Then MBAs. 
I also had housemates and friends who did other things - teach for America, PhDs, law school, Kennedy school, returned to Montana, etc. They literally thought my senior year was “nuts” returning from study abroad, doing fall recruiting in NYC, my Econ thesis, tough classes and the late comprehension exams. I loved it.

As a teen, my parents vocally said: go to college, graduate in 4 years, get marketable skills, find a job, you’re cut off but for emergencies once you graduate.

Yes I’m female. One college Bf went to med school. Later college boyfriend went to hedge fund. And the Intl soccer friends had had the best weddings in Italy ever! [/quote]

Were your parents really middle class? I didn’t have time to hang out with soccer team or what not because of work study and certainly there was no money for study abroad?? Also, economics is not usually a degree MC strivers did back then because it was not as vocational as engineering or aiming for doc/law. I know no one in my hometown would have no idea about what a hedge fund or investment bank was in the 90s.

I’m guessing you are fairly attractive female, and were graced into a UMC crowd and dated among them, esp intl students who are wealthy full pay.  How exactly were you “neighbors” with a soccer team? Did they rent a house or something together?  Attractive or athlete is the best in for MC folks to the UMC and rich circles, but most MC folks are work studying and studying studying and don’t have the same idle time or sports training time together as that circle.

No one I dated ever went into finance, they were aiming for teach for America or biotech engineering or medicine - the usual middle class path. [/quote]

I’m fascinated by why Teach For America is considered more prestigious than just teaching at a rough public school. Most teachers in local public school districts when to schools like Towson & Radford—I don’t think they or anyone else considers them candidates for top law or B school.[/quote]

I’m not.

It’s for people who can’t plan or figure out their own path so they keep doing spoonfed programs or academia.

There’s literally 1000s o Fulbright’s a year too, at totally no name Unis and topics. Just delays the real world.

Seriously, tell your kids to avoid. 
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