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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS will graduate from Brown with a degree in economics in two weeks with a junior internship, and is still looking for jobs.  DS has fifteen friends from Brown with the same major.  Of those fifteen, five received job offers because their families are super wealthy with so many connections.  The remaining ten, DS included, have been looking for jobs since January.  It is not easy if you’re from MC and your families don’t have connections in this job market environment.  Going to Brown has not helped DS so far.

People need to get out of the McLean, Langley, great falls, Bethesda, and Potomac bubble.[/quote]

And yet, I have lower middle class young women in my family who were not at all gifted students and are making $70,000-85,000 year wages as first year registered nurses. Community college and regional state university degrees.[/quote]

I'll up your anecdata with my own. I graduated from a SLAC and hardly any of my friends had a job offer at graduation. Now 20 years out most of my college friends are pretty high earners.

I have nurses in my family who are middle aged and none of them make anything near most of my peers with non-professional college degrees.

Having a solid job at graduation at 22 is great, but if you don't have that it doesn't mean you're screwed for life.[/quote]

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