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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My advice is to steer clear of liberal arts majors unless heading into law school or med school or PhD programs. You have to have pragmatic skills to be useful in today’s workforce. The jobs that aren’t going away anytime soon are the client facing roles - sales engineering, territory managers, med device sales, consulting, account management. But to land these roles you also need strong analytical skills, data analysis, etc. The back office support roles (comms, mrktg, finance, hr, purchasing, ops) are being heavily supported or advanced now due to ai enhancements. We still need some entry level roles but not nearly as many.  [/quote]

It’s exactly the opposite with AI^^

My kid is at an Ivy (non-Stem/non-business) and has had a successful internship (one last summer and Fall semester) and one lined up for the summer. [/quote]

Those connections help. The profs in my kid’s small department love him so they coach him to apply to a lot of those opportunities. [b]It’s where the Ivy pays off[/b][b]. [/quote]
Dang. Why didnt we think of that?  Should've attended an ivy. [/quote]

Connections can help, including those from private elite high schools. In fact, they’ve worked quite well for my students. Some of them have mentioned the unspoken competition within colleges; by contrast, they were able to rely on their high school networks for support, where there was less conflict of interest.

This whole emphasis on connections is outdated. It is just another form of old money gatekeeping. 
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Except it’s not outdated at all. Parents who genuinely know a lot of people in various industries and professions are able to reach out to their contacts in advance to ferret out summer opportunities (and/or be introduced to others). From there, they connect their kids.

This is all much easier when their kids are at top colleges and seem like genuinely solid, qualified prospects and/or when the parents’ relationships are deep and real rather than merely transactional. [/quote]

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