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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Northwestern is a great school for networking with alumni.

I'm saying this kindly, but how does he have a masters with no relevant work experience or internships? What did he do during the summers throughout his 6 years of undergrad and grad school? Did he forge relationships with any professors or alumni that he can reach out to for mentorship or a research assistantship maybe to get something on his resume.[/quote]

His mentor from undergrad is retired/has dementia now.  In the summers he largely didn't do office work, rather did service industry type stuff. In 2019, the summer between sophomore and junior years, he did an internship for 30 hours a week for college credit for a city manager.  The summer before he graduated, pandemic summer 2020, he worked 20 hours a week entirely remotely for a congressional campaign. After graduation, he taught for 3 weeks at a for profit school in an inner city. Then waited tables for 6 months, finally got a 100% remote analytics job for 6 months, then went to Northwestern and finished in 4 straight academic quarters.
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