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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS just graduated from Uchicago in CS and Econ, currently looking for work and failing.[/quote]

We went to the summer open house at Chicago last Friday and the admissions director said that 99% of the class was employed or matriculating to graduate school AT GRADUATION this year. 
The admissions director reiterated this several times "not 6 months following graduation, AT graduation, 99% of our graduating seniors knew what they are doing this coming fall."

Is this not truthful?[/quote]
I'm sure they count fellowships and the borderline poverty programs we call volunteer services such as peace corps in that mix, which overwhelmingly are a mix of people unsure of what they want to do. I also give career centers the eyebrow usually as someone who went to one of the schools with "top" career placement and career office, when, in reality, the students were all very ambitious and hardworking and the career office produced semi-literate workshops on building a linkedin/resume and hosting coffee chats.

Or maybe PP's kid is the 1%. Someone has to be.[/quote]

I wish the schools would break out the grad school vs "employed in a field related to their studies".  How do you know kids are accepted and enrolled in grad school and not just thinking about it?[/quote]

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