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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has he done anything substantive to show interest in his field while in college?  Did he do research for a professor?  Did he join any professional societies?  Intern during the semester anywhere?  Work a campus job?  A summer job?

It's been 1.5 years since COVID were rolled back.  [b]If he has done nothing to sell about himself, he's just lazy[/b].[/quote]

I'm his mother and I'm not going to disagree with your appraisal. Now that we have that out of the way, how does he get a good job with a practically vacant resume and one month from earning an Ivy League bachelor's degree?[/quote]

Starbucks or equivelant while he searches for something more substantive.[/quote]

He should start calling around places he might like to work and offer to be an intern, even an unpaid intern. I can’t fathom why he wasn’t doing this in college and allowed to slack but whatever, here we are. Or, teaching at a private school for the year can save face; they love Ivy grads. During that year he needs to get his ass in gear and either get into some corporate training program (these places literally recruit from ivies so he has a huge advantage) or prepare to apply to grad school while he sorts his stuff out. Why was his GPA so low? If it’s too low for grad school he should do a masters at the most prestigious school he can get into and apply with those grades under his belt. 
You’ve got your work cut out for you getting him on track.
How did he have the ability and performance to attend an Ivy but not to get good grades or a job afterwards?[/quote]

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