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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Believe what you want.  If it helps you sleep at night too think you're JMU great can work his way up from loan officer at capital one to equity trader at Jane Street, don't let me stop you.  But you are lying to yourself if you think these organizations ain't care about your academic performance when they hire you.

[b]This is true at every elite employer from law firms to investment banks to consulting companies to tech. [/b] If you're not smart in the traditional ways, you will have a hard time getting opportunities to show that you are smart in traditional ways.[/quote]

This was very, very true up until about the mid-‘90s. It has gotten less true every five years since then and the pace has accelerated in each increment. There’s a reason why people are (incorrectly, in my view) questioning the value of college altogether right now.

In STEM, the real top end value is in creating and harnessing the next big thing, not in mastering the last big thing. Legacy academic attitudes focus on the latter when the former is where the real progress lies - and that’s getting more true every day.

And by the way - you don’t have to even get a job at a major firm to make something incredible and change the world anymore. Tech is democratized more than ever.[/quote]

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