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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We've had Vandy grads absolutely bomb on interviews and in work product at our firm.

And the main reason is they are very intellectually uncurious and do not go 'above and beyond'.

This is not an issue we have from nescacs or even seven sisters schools where kids make up for anything with their earnestness.

I'm not sure how exactly vandy has a sub 5% acceptance rate.

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I suspect this is an LAC vs. pre-professional national university issue. Certainly you can understand that 18 year olds self-select themselves into one or the other.  They were largely poised from the outset to prioritize Pondering the Unanswerable Questions vs. making bank.  Yes, there is overlap (DS is such a person) but the kind of male who targets NU, Penn, Dartmouth, Vandy, Cornell and their ilk is not interchangeable with the type of male who is Midd or bust.

The overlap young man is likely to be an athlete with NE ties who picks a sporty NESCAC with the longtime goal of following Dad to Wall st.

I mentor post-bacs from NU, Penn, JHU, Rice and Vandy currently and while they put up amazing CVs they are not generally open-ended thinkers as a cohort. But everyone would still label them accomplished and smart (or they wouldn’t have been selected for our position)

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