Anonymous
03/26/2025 20:01
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
I know quite a few went to Jane Street. A few years later they were laid off as the turnover rate is sky high. Then teach at high schools.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 18:50
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
Anonymous wrote:Worked really hard throughout school, >15 APs, went to T20 colleges with GPA > 3.9 in college.
Did they ever have time developing the personality or sense of authority needed for leadership? If so, how?
They began that process in high school and their ivy pushed them to develop it even more and reach for big goals. Into a T3 law school. Almost every one of the ivy peers had distinct interests and high levels of motivation in addition to smarts before they arrived. None of them are recruited athletes. Med school, funded grad school or prestigious fellowships, various job offers are the norm among the senior friend/housemate group and the significant others group
Anonymous
03/26/2025 18:07
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
SpaceX
Anonymous
03/26/2025 16:28
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My nephews, with those stats, ended up in IB and the AI department of a FAANG.
It’s pretty sad that this is where our supposed best and brightest end up.
Yep!
Totally agree. "Best and brightest" get to be a cog in the corporate wheel fighting for survival and eventually layed off because their jobs move to India and are partially done by AI.....especially when they wrote part of that AI code.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 16:26
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
DC is Stanford grad, but didn't have 3.7+ GPA (had way too much fun). Working as a SWE at a FAANG making lots of $.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 16:26
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My nephews, with those stats, ended up in IB and the AI department of a FAANG.
It’s pretty sad that this is where our supposed best and brightest end up.
They like money. Plenty of bright kids end up in medicine, other STEM fields, and even teaching.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 16:24
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
Anonymous wrote:My nephews, with those stats, ended up in IB and the AI department of a FAANG.
It’s pretty sad that this is where our supposed best and brightest end up.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 16:23
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
Wall Street
Anonymous
03/26/2025 15:44
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
My nephews, with those stats, ended up in IB and the AI department of a FAANG.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 15:44
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
My DS was a high achieving student in high school (13 APs, 1500+ SAT, 4.0 uw). He ended up at one of WASP and did very well there as a humanities student. Now a PhD student at an Ivy.
Anecdotally, it seems that many graduates of his college either go into finance/consulting or head to grad school, which is a mostly mix of MD, JD, PhD, and some MEng. Some get MBAs too, but after working for a bit.
Anecdotally, it seems that many graduates of his college either go into finance/consulting or head to grad school, which is a mostly mix of MD, JD, PhD, and some MEng. Some get MBAs too, but after working for a bit.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 15:41
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
Anonymous wrote:Super high achieving son. Maxed out grades in HS, ACT and SAT. MIT grad.
Been at a FAANG now for 4 years…..makes great money, successful in his career, but has no life and is completely miserable and thinking about quitting and going back to Grad School.
My high achieving daughter high stats (1500, 3.8UW). Cornell Nolan grad.
Been working at a boutique investment firm in NY for 4 years and last year took an amazing offer to work with investments at Family Office and she is making more than my son, is much happier and actually have a life outside of work.
DC is a very high stats kid (1580 SAT, 4.0 unwgpa magnet program and currently 4.0 senior in college). They told me that they don't want to work crazy hours when they get a job. They want a life outside of work even if that means that they don't get paid that much.
Both DH and I have decent work/life balance, UMC. That's what DC wants.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 15:28
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
Anonymous wrote:Super high achieving son. Maxed out grades in HS, ACT and SAT. MIT grad.
Been at a FAANG now for 4 years…..makes great money, successful in his career, but has no life and is completely miserable and thinking about quitting and going back to Grad School.
My high achieving daughter high stats (1500, 3.8UW). Cornell Nolan grad.
Been working at a boutique investment firm in NY for 4 years and last year took an amazing offer to work with investments at Family Office and she is making more than my son, is much happier and actually have a life outside of work.
"Small" for those of you that don't graduate from MIT.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 15:25
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
Super high achieving son. Maxed out grades in HS, ACT and SAT. MIT grad.
Been at a FAANG now for 4 years…..makes great money, successful in his career, but has no life and is completely miserable and thinking about quitting and going back to Grad School.
My high achieving daughter high stats (1500, 3.8UW). Cornell Nolan grad.
Been working at a boutique investment firm in NY for 4 years and last year took an amazing offer to work with investments at Family Office and she is making more than my son, is much happier and actually have a life outside of work.
Been at a FAANG now for 4 years…..makes great money, successful in his career, but has no life and is completely miserable and thinking about quitting and going back to Grad School.
My high achieving daughter high stats (1500, 3.8UW). Cornell Nolan grad.
Been working at a boutique investment firm in NY for 4 years and last year took an amazing offer to work with investments at Family Office and she is making more than my son, is much happier and actually have a life outside of work.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 14:44
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
Many end up in advertising (Google, Facebook, etc.)
Anonymous
03/26/2025 14:14
Subject: Where did your high achieving students end up after college?
Worked really hard throughout school, >15 APs, went to T20 colleges with GPA > 3.9 in college.
Did they ever have time developing the personality or sense of authority needed for leadership? If so, how?
Did they ever have time developing the personality or sense of authority needed for leadership? If so, how?