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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was at an Ivy starting 2002, and everyone my freshman year knew what’s up, even the middle class ones. And Internet was already a thing then. [/quote]

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Same here. Graduated from HYP in 2006. [/quote]

I don't think these last two posters realize the difference in the internet in 2002/2006 versus 1999 (which is when i'm assuming OP was still finishing school, since she was employed in the dot com bust).

Not only were jobs and internships not reliably available online. More important, there was zero community online.  By the time i applied to law school in 2002, there were some rumblings of very basic posts online giving some tips regarding what grades you needed to get into different law schools. It was bare bones info even then. People weren't posting the minutia of stuff like how to work summer jobs, or what info to include in your application essay.  But back in 1999 - webpages were like a corporate logo with a "contact us" icon.  Big difference in time.  By 2004 i was doing my law school on campus interview process all through online applications. Huge change in a short time.  [/quote]

And what the posters are pointing out is that even without the internet recruiting on these elite campuses were intense and with some small effort a student could find out relevant information about careers. Not everything is served up on a silver platter. [/quote]

I don’t think you understand that there was no discussion about salary with any of my peers, no one mentioned that the job I pursued would top out at 100 K. Meanwhile other careers will go up to have $500k+. It just was not something you talked about. Everyone was starting out within the same narrow range for starting salaries, which was more money than my parents had ever earned together. Likewise COL in metro areas wasn’t really available — especially when you filter for school quality or commute; you might find a magazine article listing metros by average housing prices over the entire region. 
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[b]I agree - this stuff was incomprehensible in 1998 without internet communities - and especially among women, who don't talk about jobs.  Nonprofit "fun" jobs paid $24k out of college. And corporate jobs were paying $40k.  That difference was triffling back then, and we didn't know that the nonprofit job was still paying $55k 20 years later while the corporate job is paying $175k. [/b] People act like all this was common knowledge, and being discussed by students on campus or with families. But the students in my circles were not discussing those things back then, and if you didn't have families in those worlds, you just weren't even thinking to ask these questions.  WHen i went to law school 5 years later, it was a total different ball game - all the information was publicly available and widely discussed among students. But not in undergrad in the 90s.  [/quote]

Thanks PP. this was EXACTLY my experience. [/quote]

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