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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I attended my 10th year CMU class of reunion with 40 friends who majored in Computer Science.  39 of them have regular jobs making good salaries, between 250K and 350K.  One person left CMU after his freshman year and transferred to VA Tech because he couldn't handle CMU.  It turned out that he became the most successful person in the group because he is now the CIO for a fortune 100 company.  His EQ is so much higher than his IQ.  Those of us that attended CMU have very high IQ but low EQ.  That "dumb jock" with a low GPA might be your future boss because he has high EQ.  They don't teach EQ in college, just saying.[/quote]

Taking classes in psychology, rhetoric, philosophy, or communications can go a long way to helping with EQ, communication, and influencing. Athletes are used to dealing with adversity, time management, and collaboration (depending on the sport anyway), which does prepare them for corporate life on top of EQ more generally. Resilience really isn't something a ton of college kids or young professionals have had to show much of either.[/quote]

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