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[quote=Anonymous]This happens in college too. I majored in Chemical Engineering and did my husband. DH went to an ivy and everyone in his class was encouraged to go to grad school, med school or law school. Few people he graduated with went on to work in industry. DH has a PhD and most of his grad school friends went to undergrad at other Ivys or very top-20 name brand schools. I went to a selective private school in the Midwest highly ranked for ChemE. About half my class went to grad school or professional school. The other half went into industry - a combination of R&D and management track jobs as well as banking and consulting. Only a few people from my class went to work, in hard hats and boots, in a chemical plant and then it was for major companies like P&G, GE, and DuPont. When I started working in consulting I met another ChemE who graduated from a state school with a mediocre ranking. She was shocked I didn't know how to repair an industrial pump or disassemble a distillation column or do other hands on things. Most people she went to school with went to work in chemical plants and for small companies. She was the top of her class and she went into business consulting.

Something to think about when you pick a college with your kid. Make sure to ask for a list of companies that interview on campus and hire - and how many they hire each year. Make sure to ask how many kids go to grad school - and which grad schools.

Lastly as much as the instruction in the article was so slanted to be almost comical, where kids end up is also a factor of what they are exposed to. DH grew up outside NYC in a a town where most dads work on Wall St and most moms stay home. His peers thought he was nuts to go to engineering schools and now many people from HS are on finance. I grew up in the middle class in a small Midwestern state school college town. I picked engineering because it was a high status job where I'm from and I liked STEM. Had I ever met a PhD economist or a finance exec/banker I likely would have done that instead. [/quote]

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