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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I graduated from an Ivy with an engineering degree back in 1991, I only knew one person who got a job by May.  We all managed to become productive citizens since.  He’ll be fine.  [/quote]

Engineering and you didn't have any internships? No employer offered you and your friends jobs at the end of your rising senior summer internships?[/quote]

No.  Internships were something a small number of kids got back then, not the whole class.  Most potential employers were laying people off, not hiring interns.  [/quote]

Well in 2004 my now DH graduated from a third tier school with a degree in engineering.  Almost everyone in his major had a job offer by March of senior year.[/quote]

Well 2004 was very different than 1991.  1991 nobody was hiring.  Spouse graduated that year, from an Ivy in engineering, and 75-80% of their class of engineers went onto grad school.  Not because they wanted to, they simply  could not find jobs because they did NOT exist.  Go look it up and see, it was perhaps the worst year for college grads around that time frame, especially in engineering. [/quote]

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