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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]

NP. DH and I are both from non-wealthy immigrant families, graduated HYPSM in the late 90s, and our first jobs were in BB and MBB, respectively. Neither of us had ever heard of investment banking or management consulting before college, but took full advantage of on-campus recruiting. The career center was our “internet.”[/quote]

It’s likely as an immigrant family you grew up an urban metro and were already aware of the cost of a UMC lifestyle, and looked for a career prioritizing income.

Did your career center really discuss salary potential for various careers in concrete numbers?  We’re you at Stanford, they are much more business school lite and I think more open about salaries and money in general from my experience [/quote]

Do you even hear yourself. So the UMC kids had advantages because they had inside knowledge. But LC poor immigrants had advantage living in urban areas. So somehow everyone was advantaged except for the suburban MC white kid in the 90s. It’s a whole bunch of excuses [/quote]

Immigrant family poster here. Yeah, I didn’t address the “urban metro” thing when I responded to that PP, but DH and I actually grew up in the suburbs. Our families were MC, just not white.[/quote]

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