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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know what the upper middle class does? They get into the best, most elite college they can. Because your college matters a heck of a lot more than your major. If you are a graduate of HYP or AWS, you don't need to major in "finance" (in fact, these elite schools don't offer pre-professional degrees at all), but you can major philosophy and simply sign up for an on campus interview your senior year for companies like Goldman or McKinsey. I graduated from AWS, and I remember signing up to interview at a number of these top firms at the career counseling office. Once you get admitted into these tippy top tier schools, these companies come looking for you--not the other way around.[/quote]

What's HYP and AWS?[/quote]

Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore--these are reliably elite undergraduate institutions (at universities and liberal arts colleges) that have cache in higher socio-economic brackets. If you are from the west coast, I would also throw in Stanford and Pomona.[/quote]
And less than 1% of the population will ever graduate from these schools. So, not really relevant to, well, the vast majority of people.[/quote]

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