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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP doesn't know what the word "prestige" means.

An electrical lineman might make $250k a year, and it's a cool job. But it is not "prestigious".[/quote]

+1  Salary doesn't equal prestige.

A professor teaching your kid may make 150K a year.  A government employee influencing US health policy at NIH may make 175K a year.  A Pulitzer prize winning journalist may make 80k a year.  A person running an NGO saving lives may make 60K a year.  These are prestigious jobs that get the most talented thinkers, in my opinion. You're more likely to get them coming out of an Ivy than Rice (although Rice is also a good school).   But if you equate prestige only to $, enjoy your life choices.  You can make even more money selling drugs, and even though that's illegal, that's "prestigious" by the OP's definition.[/quote]
This is moving the goal posts these grads are all getting similar types of jobs. Most go into finance or consulting of some sort. This is a Deloitte vs BCG type of difference. [/quote]

More than a third of Princeton grads are headed to a nonprofit organization or government. Only 17% percent go to finance or consulting. That alone explains a huge component of the difference at 22. The question is the long game. Teach for America to Senate Staff to Senator is a long road but it is more prestigious and more "useful" that someone who grinds their way up the ladder at Deloitte. [/quote]

Maybe it’s me, but I feel that finance people are benefiting themselves more than society.[/quote]

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