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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is this kid less deserving? Because his parents are poors?[/quote]

Even a rich kid with great grades would struggle to get handed such a plum job this late in the year. You're asking an uncle to ask one of his close pals to create a space for an undeserving slacker. The fact s/he is middle class is irrelevant. Going to Duke is also irrelevant. There are 2,000 Duke graduates a year. All would like a $150,000 job after graduation. How many get a $150,000 job? Maybe a few hundred, including computer science students.[/quote]

I am the poster of the 2.9 GPA D1 athlete DS with a high-paying job with an investment company after graduation.  FWIW, I am also from the MC.

OP's nephew should have made "connections" in college to avoid this kind of problem.  My DS quickly learned in college that [b]college kids with rich parents always like to hang out with athletes and musicians because they want to hang out with "cool" people[/b].  In returns, they ask their parents to help DS for opportunities after graduation.   It is a win-win formula.  Maybe OP's nephew doesn't have any [b]useful skills that those college kids with rich parents want.[/b]  That's how it works in the real world.[/quote]

Oh I see so plumb jobs go to the bros who are athletic stars who can help your DS meet girls in college; that’s a more important skill than anything taught in classrooms.

I understand it’s how the world works, but I would think you would have been prouder of your kid if they had been an athlete and got a decent GPA from what you yourself said is an easy state school.  But yeah, he’s making $$$ for chasing a ball, ‘Merica. [/quote]

There are tons of jobs technically in finance, from easy to get to hyper selective entry and high wages. The PP sounds like a troll spamming finance buzzwords and cliches. A dumb jock with a 2.9 gpa may get a cushy “finance” job but it’s not the same caliber of job the elbowy smart kids are fighting for.[/quote]

Sadly a lot of the "elbowy smart kids" make the mistake of going purely down the quant path without developing the other skills needed to excel and they really do end up working for and getting ridiculed by the former jocks at top hedge funds and banks (outside of the quant-only firms).[/quote]

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