Anonymous
11/23/2022 21:48
Subject: colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Bucknell and Lehigh grads with high gpa’s get front office jobs if they target it and are singularly focused on getting it the moment they set foot on campus as freshman
Business professor and Goldman Sachs alum here. I have sent Ph.D. students to become professors at Colgate, University of South Carolina, and have a former colleague at Lehigh. I was first-generation college and didn't even know what an investment banker or engineer was at age 17. I can't relate to a teenager who is "singularly focused" on such a narrow field.
Typically, DCUM fails to discuss the quality of education in finance, business, or other majors. Furthermore, DCUM thinks a finance offer at age 22 guarantees a successful career and happy life. As long as your high school nincompoop gets into a school with the right "connections", your helicopter parenting is over, and you can retire.
Anonymous wrote:My nephew just graduated from Lehigh with a job in finance. He was a business/computer sci major and had great internships and several offers on Wall st.
Now you are just spoiling the DCUM narrative! Your nephew went to a school known for engineering. Then he learned about computers in addition to business. In other words, he acquired skills. He could be self-sufficient and work with data and software tools. Good for him and his employer!
The DCUM attitude is immature and short-sighted. You expect a kid to be singularly focused for 21 years. How about letting the kid learn what he likes? How about urging the kid to learn versatile math and computer skills? Then the kid can do finance, business, science, engineering, or medicine. If the kid becomes smart and skilled, then he can get a top one-year masters in the field of his choice. Is it so terrible to start a career at age 23 instead of 22.?
Here is a thought. Get CLEP and AP credit, and take an extra course each semester, or online during winter/summer breaks. Then you can graduate in 3 years instead of 4. DCUM never discusses saving a year of college, but everybody complains when I suggest getting a one-year masters degree after becoming more educated and mature about the career field. The focus on schools with "connections" and "placement" is why I suspect y'all are raising a bunch of incompetent nincompoops who can't get a good education or job on their own merits.
Agree. So many parents on here obsessed with the fields they perceive as lucrative. No imagination and no faith in their kids. Let your kids figure it out! Have faith that you have raised them to do that.
I’ve worked with your kids in finance cubicle-land. They are h happy because they were pushed into a field they do not enjoy. A recipe for burn out and unhappiness, but I guess if they find your retirement and they have a brag worthy job, you are happy at least.
The value of working at GS or McK isn’t to come up the ranks in those fields — it’s the exit opportunities to work in something you want to do but also get paid decently for it.
It’s why you see GS and McK alums pepper interesting fields/jobs that also happen to pay decent.
But that doesn’t help the person that wants to be a musician or a florist.
Anonymous
11/23/2022 21:40
Subject: colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Bucknell and Lehigh grads with high gpa’s get front office jobs if they target it and are singularly focused on getting it the moment they set foot on campus as freshman
Business professor and Goldman Sachs alum here. I have sent Ph.D. students to become professors at Colgate, University of South Carolina, and have a former colleague at Lehigh. I was first-generation college and didn't even know what an investment banker or engineer was at age 17. I can't relate to a teenager who is "singularly focused" on such a narrow field.
Typically, DCUM fails to discuss the quality of education in finance, business, or other majors. Furthermore, DCUM thinks a finance offer at age 22 guarantees a successful career and happy life. As long as your high school nincompoop gets into a school with the right "connections", your helicopter parenting is over, and you can retire.
Anonymous wrote:My nephew just graduated from Lehigh with a job in finance. He was a business/computer sci major and had great internships and several offers on Wall st.
Now you are just spoiling the DCUM narrative! Your nephew went to a school known for engineering. Then he learned about computers in addition to business. In other words, he acquired skills. He could be self-sufficient and work with data and software tools. Good for him and his employer!
The DCUM attitude is immature and short-sighted. You expect a kid to be singularly focused for 21 years. How about letting the kid learn what he likes? How about urging the kid to learn versatile math and computer skills? Then the kid can do finance, business, science, engineering, or medicine. If the kid becomes smart and skilled, then he can get a top one-year masters in the field of his choice. Is it so terrible to start a career at age 23 instead of 22.?
Here is a thought. Get CLEP and AP credit, and take an extra course each semester, or online during winter/summer breaks. Then you can graduate in 3 years instead of 4. DCUM never discusses saving a year of college, but everybody complains when I suggest getting a one-year masters degree after becoming more educated and mature about the career field. The focus on schools with "connections" and "placement" is why I suspect y'all are raising a bunch of incompetent nincompoops who can't get a good education or job on their own merits.
Agree. So many parents on here obsessed with the fields they perceive as lucrative. No imagination and no faith in their kids. Let your kids figure it out! Have faith that you have raised them to do that.
I’ve worked with your kids in finance cubicle-land. They are h happy because they were pushed into a field they do not enjoy. A recipe for burn out and unhappiness, but I guess if they find your retirement and they have a brag worthy job, you are happy at least.
The value of working at GS or McK isn’t to come up the ranks in those fields — it’s the exit opportunities to work in something you want to do but also get paid decently for it.
It’s why you see GS and McK alums pepper interesting fields/jobs that also happen to pay decent.
Anonymous
11/23/2022 21:16
Subject: colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Anonymous
11/23/2022 21:14
Subject: colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Bucknell and Lehigh grads with high gpa’s get front office jobs if they target it and are singularly focused on getting it the moment they set foot on campus as freshman
Business professor and Goldman Sachs alum here. I have sent Ph.D. students to become professors at Colgate, University of South Carolina, and have a former colleague at Lehigh. I was first-generation college and didn't even know what an investment banker or engineer was at age 17. I can't relate to a teenager who is "singularly focused" on such a narrow field.
Typically, DCUM fails to discuss the quality of education in finance, business, or other majors. Furthermore, DCUM thinks a finance offer at age 22 guarantees a successful career and happy life. As long as your high school nincompoop gets into a school with the right "connections", your helicopter parenting is over, and you can retire.
Anonymous wrote:My nephew just graduated from Lehigh with a job in finance. He was a business/computer sci major and had great internships and several offers on Wall st.
Now you are just spoiling the DCUM narrative! Your nephew went to a school known for engineering. Then he learned about computers in addition to business. In other words, he acquired skills. He could be self-sufficient and work with data and software tools. Good for him and his employer!
The DCUM attitude is immature and short-sighted. You expect a kid to be singularly focused for 21 years. How about letting the kid learn what he likes? How about urging the kid to learn versatile math and computer skills? Then the kid can do finance, business, science, engineering, or medicine. If the kid becomes smart and skilled, then he can get a top one-year masters in the field of his choice. Is it so terrible to start a career at age 23 instead of 22.?
Here is a thought. Get CLEP and AP credit, and take an extra course each semester, or online during winter/summer breaks. Then you can graduate in 3 years instead of 4. DCUM never discusses saving a year of college, but everybody complains when I suggest getting a one-year masters degree after becoming more educated and mature about the career field. The focus on schools with "connections" and "placement" is why I suspect y'all are raising a bunch of incompetent nincompoops who can't get a good education or job on their own merits.
Agree. So many parents on here obsessed with the fields they perceive as lucrative. No imagination and no faith in their kids. Let your kids figure it out! Have faith that you have raised them to do that.
I’ve worked with your kids in finance cubicle-land. They are h happy because they were pushed into a field they do not enjoy. A recipe for burn out and unhappiness, but I guess if they find your retirement and they have a brag worthy job, you are happy at least.
Anonymous
11/23/2022 20:29
Subject: Re:colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
UT Austin, Indiana, Carnegie Mellon (maybe that is top 25 now), UNC. All for undergrad b-schools.
Anonymous
11/23/2022 20:27
Subject: colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Anonymous wrote:William and Mary. USC (gamecocks, not Trojans) has a good b school.
W&M does not place well in finance.
Anonymous
11/23/2022 19:53
Subject: colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Anonymous wrote:Bucknell and Lehigh grads with high gpa’s get front office jobs if they target it and are singularly focused on getting it the moment they set foot on campus as freshman
Business professor and Goldman Sachs alum here. I have sent Ph.D. students to become professors at Colgate, University of South Carolina, and have a former colleague at Lehigh. I was first-generation college and didn't even know what an investment banker or engineer was at age 17. I can't relate to a teenager who is "singularly focused" on such a narrow field.
Typically, DCUM fails to discuss the quality of education in finance, business, or other majors. Furthermore, DCUM thinks a finance offer at age 22 guarantees a successful career and happy life. As long as your high school nincompoop gets into a school with the right "connections", your helicopter parenting is over, and you can retire.
Anonymous wrote:My nephew just graduated from Lehigh with a job in finance. He was a business/computer sci major and had great internships and several offers on Wall st.
Now you are just spoiling the DCUM narrative! Your nephew went to a school known for engineering. Then he learned about computers in addition to business. In other words, he acquired skills. He could be self-sufficient and work with data and software tools. Good for him and his employer!
The DCUM attitude is immature and short-sighted. You expect a kid to be singularly focused for 21 years. How about letting the kid learn what he likes? How about urging the kid to learn versatile math and computer skills? Then the kid can do finance, business, science, engineering, or medicine. If the kid becomes smart and skilled, then he can get a top one-year masters in the field of his choice. Is it so terrible to start a career at age 23 instead of 22.?
Here is a thought. Get CLEP and AP credit, and take an extra course each semester, or online during winter/summer breaks. Then you can graduate in 3 years instead of 4. DCUM never discusses saving a year of college, but everybody complains when I suggest getting a one-year masters degree after becoming more educated and mature about the career field. The focus on schools with "connections" and "placement" is why I suspect y'all are raising a bunch of incompetent nincompoops who can't get a good education or job on their own merits.
Anonymous
11/23/2022 19:38
Subject: colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:probably the schools with strong alumni support on wall street, but like to hear thoughts on what people see. Bucknell, W&L, Kelly, BC, ‘Nova? Assume NYU is top 25
They will fill up the 'back office' and if lucky, 'middle office'.
Bucknell and Lehigh grads with high gpa’s get front office jobs if they target it and are singularly focused on getting it the moment they set foot on campus as freshman
My nephew just graduated from Lehigh with a job in finance. He was a business/computer sci major and had great internships and several offers on Wall st.
Yep.
Common
The difference between going to Lehigh and hypsmw is at hypsmw you can wait until your junior year and “decide” to go into finance/consulting for a couple of years from a wider range of majors…
At Lehigh and bucknell you have to major in something more practical and check all the boxes from freshman year , but if you do that you’ll def get a front office job in nyc
Anonymous
11/23/2022 19:33
Subject: colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Anonymous wrote: NYU?
LOL you better work on Wall Street if you went there, you’ll need the money to pay off your loans.
Anonymous
11/23/2022 19:18
Subject: colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
NYU?
Anonymous
11/23/2022 19:15
Subject: Re:colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Babson specializes in business
Anonymous
11/23/2022 18:06
Subject: Re:colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:USC is top 25 - excluded based on OP’s inquiry
That’s the Trojans, not the gamecocks
I think they are 27 this year, anyway.
Anonymous
11/23/2022 18:05
Subject: colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:probably the schools with strong alumni support on wall street, but like to hear thoughts on what people see. Bucknell, W&L, Kelly, BC, ‘Nova? Assume NYU is top 25
They will fill up the 'back office' and if lucky, 'middle office'.
Bucknell and Lehigh grads with high gpa’s get front office jobs if they target it and are singularly focused on getting it the moment they set foot on campus as freshman
"Front office' in Utah.
Anonymous
11/23/2022 18:01
Subject: Re:colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Indiana University Kelley school of business
Anonymous
11/23/2022 17:57
Subject: colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..
Nephew has high paying wall street job - went to VT.