Math major from top ten university. No job. Mistake was not doing internships. Only research. Looking at grad school for computer science.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock

How does art history lead to investment banking? This is not a snark comment. I'm genuinely curious as that would not be my expectation (though I know little about either as a career and college major).

Search for an old post on here about anthropology at Dartmouth as a very popular “gateway” major to investment banking and Wall Street.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock

How does art history lead to investment banking? This is not a snark comment. I'm genuinely curious as that would not be my expectation (though I know little about either as a career and college major).

Perhaps the kid is just a good writer and critical thinker and it came out in networking?

That school also places well on Wall Street so it could be that.

Not much competition given the school is so small.

Liberal arts colleges do extremely well for placement on Wall Street. much less internal competition.

Anonymous wrote:Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock

I’ve seen this play out so many times this year. With random weird majors like sociology and English and history those kids are getting the jobs (from good schools albeit).

Anonymous wrote:Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock

Tesla is a great resume builder. I am sure it will work out in the end. Good luck!

Anonymous wrote:2024 W&M graduate - 3.99 GPA with double major in CS and Math. Has a CS job with the Dept. of the Navy after interning with them last summer. (Got internship after doing well at a CS competition). None of his friends have jobs yet.

That is amazing- congrats to him!

2024 W&M graduate - 3.99 GPA with double major in CS and Math. Has a CS job with the Dept. of the Navy after interning with them last summer. (Got internship after doing well at a CS competition). None of his friends have jobs yet.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock

How does art history lead to investment banking? This is not a snark comment. I'm genuinely curious as that would not be my expectation (though I know little about either as a career and college major).

No it's a great question and strange move. He got into art consulting and leveraged the position to get into an investment banking internship. He definitely wants to go back into the art history sphere, likely philanthropy if he can snag it.

Anonymous wrote:Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock

How does art history lead to investment banking? This is not a snark comment. I'm genuinely curious as that would not be my expectation (though I know little about either as a career and college major).

Anonymous wrote:You may get more responses without asking for college. Following though! My son is going into second year of college. Hopefully market improves in a few years time. I’ve heard it’s tough for CS and some financial fields.

+1 I know a couple VT grads in CS who are still job hunting.

You may get more responses without asking for college. Following though! My son is going into second year of college. Hopefully market improves in a few years time. I’ve heard it’s tough for CS and some financial fields.

Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock

Anonymous wrote:Please share status of recent grad: school, major, offer, obtained via internship, career placement or other network... or still looking.

Hearing it is rough out there.

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Please share status of recent grad: school, major, offer, obtained via internship, career placement or other network... or still looking.

Hearing it is rough out there.