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Anonymous wrote:Opportunities are very everywhere for college students regardless of where you attend. My DS was a CS major at a third tier university but he always went to technology conferences and established professional network connections there. He got rejected so many times that he lost count but there is a FinTech startup that took a chance on him and hired him after he graduated in 2014. The company was acquired by a bigger FinTech player in 2018 and my DS got his options fully vested worth 25M at the age of twenty six. It is what you make of it.

On the one hand I love hearing these stories...but on the other hand you are saying that your kid actually had a very hard time getting a job coming out of a 3rd tier college and got very lucky (luck is absolutely a part of life) that the "one" company that was willing to hire him also had a successful exit.

You do realize that your same kid coming out of say Stanford would have had 100 start-ups vying for his services (plus countless large tech, VC firms, etc.).

Stanford grads never get rejected? What a nice claim that must be to make in visits to high schools!

Not my fault if you can't understand the point.

Would just appreciate if folks would stop posting links to things like the Fortune 500 CEOs or giving a unicorn story (that for the most part says going to a 3rd Tier college was actually not great), both of which actually support (not refute) the OP's statement.

Wish someone would post that my kid attended a school ranked #300 and there were multiple Fortune 500 companies recruiting on-campus and 99% of the grads are employed in high-paying/satisfying careers. That's what we want to see as examples.

Anonymous wrote:Would just appreciate if folks would stop posting links to things like the Fortune 500 CEOs or giving a unicorn story (that for the most part says going to a 3rd Tier college was actually not great), both of which actually support (not refute) the OP's statement.

Wish someone would post that my kid attended a school ranked #300 and there were multiple Fortune 500 companies recruiting on-campus and 99% of the grads are employed in high-paying/satisfying careers. That's what we want to see as examples.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Opportunities are very everywhere for college students regardless of where you attend. My DS was a CS major at a third tier university but he always went to technology conferences and established professional network connections there. He got rejected so many times that he lost count but there is a FinTech startup that took a chance on him and hired him after he graduated in 2014. The company was acquired by a bigger FinTech player in 2018 and my DS got his options fully vested worth 25M at the age of twenty six. It is what you make of it.

On the one hand I love hearing these stories...but on the other hand you are saying that your kid actually had a very hard time getting a job coming out of a 3rd tier college and got very lucky (luck is absolutely a part of life) that the "one" company that was willing to hire him also had a successful exit.

You do realize that your same kid coming out of say Stanford would have had 100 start-ups vying for his services (plus countless large tech, VC firms, etc.).

Stanford grads never get rejected? What a nice claim that must be to make in visits to high schools!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Opportunities are very everywhere for college students regardless of where you attend. My DS was a CS major at a third tier university but he always went to technology conferences and established professional network connections there. He got rejected so many times that he lost count but there is a FinTech startup that took a chance on him and hired him after he graduated in 2014. The company was acquired by a bigger FinTech player in 2018 and my DS got his options fully vested worth 25M at the age of twenty six. It is what you make of it.

On the one hand I love hearing these stories...but on the other hand you are saying that your kid actually had a very hard time getting a job coming out of a 3rd tier college and got very lucky (luck is absolutely a part of life) that the "one" company that was willing to hire him also had a successful exit.

You do realize that your same kid coming out of say Stanford would have had 100 start-ups vying for his services (plus countless large tech, VC firms, etc.).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Opportunities are very everywhere for college students regardless of where you attend. My DS was a CS major at a third tier university but he always went to technology conferences and established professional network connections there. He got rejected so many times that he lost count but there is a FinTech startup that took a chance on him and hired him after he graduated in 2014. The company was acquired by a bigger FinTech player in 2018 and my DS got his options fully vested worth 25M at the age of twenty six. It is what you make of it.

On the one hand I love hearing these stories...but on the other hand you are saying that your kid actually had a very hard time getting a job coming out of a 3rd tier college and got very lucky (luck is absolutely a part of life) that the "one" company that was willing to hire him also had a successful exit.

You do realize that your same kid coming out of say Stanford would have had 100 start-ups vying for his services (plus countless large tech, VC firms, etc.).

Anonymous wrote:Opportunities are very everywhere for college students regardless of where you attend. My DS was a CS major at a third tier university but he always went to technology conferences and established professional network connections there. He got rejected so many times that he lost count but there is a FinTech startup that took a chance on him and hired him after he graduated in 2014. The company was acquired by a bigger FinTech player in 2018 and my DS got his options fully vested worth 25M at the age of twenty six. It is what you make of it.

Anonymous wrote:I remember working at a well-known tech firm a year before their IPO with a $10b valuation. We recruited the top 25 CS schools. Positions weren't offered to some and not others. Recruiting was just about setting up interviews. Interview outcomes determined offers and included recommendations for placement.

Anonymous wrote:Undergraduate institution matters on Wall Street and Silicon Valley. But 99% of college graduates probably aren't aiming for Google or Goldman Sachs and most of them will do fine in life in spite of that.[/quote

It doesn't matter in tech or on WS either.

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