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[quote=Anonymous]"My DD is a straight A student at a highly regarded DCUM school. I don't think she's ever gotten a B in any class EVER, in fact. She's not marketable at this point, with the skills they taught. They did nothing to prepare her for real-world."

You just don't get it.  Anyone with straight As at a DCUM school has jumped through a crazy number of hoops over the years.  Employers are crazy for that sort of thing.

Marketable is important for someone like your husband who had no credentials.  With crazy credentials, you don't get an entry level job that requires skills that are going to go stale in two years, you get a fast-track management slot.

https://www.boeing.com/careers/college/rotational-programs.page

https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/companies-with-office-rotation-options/

And as someone else said, if she hasn't had an internship yet, that's on YOU or her, not the college.

If the college pushed her to go to grad school, she should still had a couple of summers of research under her belt and some (writing) skills developed even if they don't include the next programming language to be out-sourced for lower costs.[/quote]

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