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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Literally not a single person from the NINETIES has said that this information was widely available to them as a non-UMC person on campus.

We have heard from rich people who said in the 90s they knew this info. And we have heard from non-rich people saying that they knew this info in the aughts.

But no one has said that they were non-rich in the 90s and thought this info was readily available.

But lots of non-rich people saying they were not aware of this info in the 90s.

So all the people talking about their aughts experiences are totally not relevant to this original question.  [/quote]

And non of those people in the 90s have answered why they weren’t aware of on campus recruiting. It’s hard to avoid OCR season even without the internet. . Because it was there and they just didn’t take advantage of it. [/quote]

PP millennial, and this was precisely my question. I don’t think for a second that poor people can just bookstrap their way out of poverty - it’s far more complicated than that.  But as I said earlier, I’m curious how people who were savvy enough to get to the Ivy + missed OCR altogether since it was such a huge event on campus. (I totally buy that the internet wasn’t a real resource in the 90s. It’s a moot point to me.)[/quote]

I think this whole debate about availability of information is a bit silly. It's obvious the information is there and available and was in the 90s too. I think many of us simply didn't think or care to think about what level of compensation we needed for the lifestyle we wanted. We assumed if we got an education in something we were passionate about, we'd be fine. I mean I knew about i-banking, I heard about it a ton and among my friends it seemed to be obviously the wrong path because it'd require working 80 hours per week and none of us wanted that, money be darned.[/quote]

Yes but the lack of information due to the internet has been used as the main excuse why the students in the 90s weren’t aware of what was available that could have opened doors for them. Again, excuse after excuse. [/quote]

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