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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe it's too early to tell or maybe she just didn't capitalize on all the opportunities (I suspect very few do) but it most certainly has not [i]changed her life[/i]. The thing I do notice is overall a higher percentage of deeply committed pre-med students than my son's peers at the state flagship. Other than that there's this laughable idea that an elite college is a golden ticket to a $150,000 job offer and a rich spouse and that's just not accurate. The plum six-figure job offers are scarce and go to the connected and elbowy overachievers with perfect grades. And generally the rich socialize with the rich. If you want your child in that orbit they need to be in that orbit by 9th grade at some ritzy prep or boarding school.

I have a niece at Cornell who is close with my daughter and she has had a similar experience. At Cornell the rich are in the rich kid sororities and fraternities.

A few years back we were caught up in the admissions frenzy but in retrospect it seems so nutty. I'm [now] far more impressed with a parent who tells me their kid is at a less selective school but just got into medical school than some Ivy League parent who tells me their ubiquitous kid is going into "consulting" for $60,000 a year or some second rate grad program.[/quote]

Dear OP,
Please provide your perceived list of "elite colleges" so we can have context here.
Thanks![/quote]

Not the OP but 
Carnegie Mellon Computer Engineeingn or UVA McIntire sounds more elite than Princeton gender study, Northwesetrn communicaitons, Yale psychology, Harvard art & film.

One thing is that the OP made a bad example.  
Consulting or Finance postions after graduation from highly repected business programs or Econ/Math/Stem majors from top colleges(Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Northeastern) will get you 6 figure immediately.
OP should have said something like 'an Ivy kid getting a HR job for $5000 with a liberal art degree'.

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Your writing is atrocious and you apparently have no idea what the liberal arts actually are.[/quote]

Sorry I left out a 0. Meant to say $50,000.
Just gooled it and 
"According to Payscale.com, entry-level HR Managers with less than five years of experience are paid $51,000 on average. During their mid-career, they see their average salary rising to $62,000."

This is if they get lucky to land a HR position at some good company. 
Average salary is expceced to be lower with a liberal arts degree.  Dont' get mad at the facts.

NP omg PP. Stop using Glassdoor. Actually stop using Google if all you’re going to do is believe everything that’s posted online, and you don’t  have the first hand experience to cut through the clutter. MCKinsey loves hiring liberal arts grads. And HR execs can pull in more than Lawyers by ‘mid career’.

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I also used data from the Department of Education.
How may psychology majors actaully make it to HR execs, and how many HR execs position are out there? We are talking on the average.  
Stop being dumb and ignorant.

Here are the majors the [b]big 3 [/b]hires - Busines, Econ, Mathematics, science-based subjects such as Physics, Engineering, Chemistry and Computer Science.
Of course they'll hire some from other majors here and here, but don't kid yourself and good luck with our phsychology or history major.

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If my child came home and told me he/she wanted to work for a big 3, I would seriously wonder where I went wrong. What price your soul?[/quote]

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