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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nephew also graduated from Duke and had similar difficulty finding a job despite a decent GPA in Public Policy & honored acouple of semesters as an athlete/scholar by the ACC. (Makes a good first impression due to polite, clean-cut, athletic appearance.) Then got a business related masters degree at Duke open to those with minimal post college degree work experience. Still no job prospects. After a year, landed a modest-paying position doing due diligence type work. After another two years, was able to land a modest paying position with a major employer in a non-lucrative industry.

Almost all of his college friends & teammates are wealthy & connected, but offered no help to nephew even though they continue to vacation together frequently.[/quote]

Your nephew hangs out with the wrong crowd.  My DS graduated from Duke recently with 2.9 GPA with a degree in communications as a student athlete.  He got an offer in IB from one of his teammates whose father is a big shot at an IB shop.  He also got another offer in consulting from another teammate whose father is an managing director of the consulting unit.  It is all about connections.  Going to Ivies or Duke by itself is not enough.  You need connections to get those gravy jobs, unless you are an academic superstar.  Even then, it is still tough without connections.

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Yes, middle class students who are not competitive athletes are basically wasting their time at ivys.

They just won’t otherwise be in the orbit of the connected wealthy class — they won’t have money to do ski trips and weekends in Vegas, and will be seen as opportunist hanger ons.  On a sports team, they bring their value to the team as a competitive athlete, and thus are seen as worthy to socialize with.

I was middle class kid non athlete, and I actually tutored a bunch of upper class in math and computer science, and helped them with their computers etc, but that never earned me a place at their social table.  Sports is about it I think. [/quote]

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