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[quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wall Street absolutely hires English and History majors out of the Ivies—especially if they demonstrate the right skills and experiences.

While finance, econ, and STEM majors are common pipelines, firms on Wall Street (investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, etc.) often value the critical thinking, communication, and analytical skills that humanities majors bring to the table.[/quote]
For goodness sakes.. you ivy grads don't seem to get that the vast majority of humanities majors aren't graduating from Ivies. Those people aren't getting the high paying jobs.

Get out of your bubble.[/quote]

Does Wall Street hire humanities majors? Yes. Does majoring in humanities reduce your odds of getting, or being successful in a finance job? Yes.

Of course, it’s hard to explain this distinction to people who, almost by definition, have a limited grasp of probability. [/quote]

It’s not hard (as stated over and over) for Ivy grads.

You are missing the details and the critical thinking and arguing a broader point that is not being made. [/quote]

That’s a bit of a misstatement…the average humanities major at an Ivy isn’t getting a Wall Street job.  They likely are focused on getting such a job and getting involved with clubs and networking towards those jobs and know this early enough to secure internships in those jobs and have a strong GPA…and probably also took some quantitative electives.

It’s very possible for Ivy humanities majors to get these jobs (while nearly impossible for say a SUNY humanities major)…but it’s not easy and most don’t end up getting these jobs.[/quote]

You can’t be wrong, can you? I see the stats at my kid’s Ivy. I see who comes to campus to recruit- and the stats on who they take.[/quote]

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