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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.[/quote]

For STEM it probably is better.  [/quote]

Yeah, connections and soft skills are totally overrated! Hope your kids enjoy being back office grinds. [/quote]

Maybe you haven't heard, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan etc. for example are cutting thousand of Investment Banking division jobs (soft skills) while increasingly hiring more and more "Strats", "Quants" and "Quant Traders" for their front office divisions. Guess what these strats, quants and quant traders studied? That's right-math, CS, stat and physics!

You would be surprised how well poised and well-rounded these strats/quants are at these large IBs are these days. You should get out more.

Oh, same goes for big consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting etc. Guess which majors they hire more than history grad from Harvard or English major from Yale? Engineering majors, CS majors etc. from top 20 universities with high gpas. Just getting a degree in"easy" major from the Ivies are not cutting it anymore. Automation/AI is hitting these places big time as well. [/quote]

This must be jarring to many TJ haters around here. Revenge of the Nerds![/quote]

Nope.  The Harvard grads run things.  They hire the quants to do the grunt work.[/quote]
 
But did they study history, sociology, women's studies? Probably not. Zuckerberg was into computers since he was 9 or 10. Gates was into computers since high school at least. Jobs was into computers early on as well. Bezo was actually a "quant" at Two Sigma before starting Amazon. Elon Musk studies physics as an undergraduate and received Ph.D in physics as well. Bezos studied EE and CS. CEO of Google studied engineering. I can go on and on but you get the picture.

You need more than a history degree from Harvard these days. [/quote]

Who would want their child to live a life like any of those guys? Jeff Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg? no thanks[/quote]

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