T5 LAC, studied IR and already has an amazing apartment back here in DC!

DC goes to a out of state public university and is going to Boston for biotech research with a BS in Biochemistry. 3 summers of internships and 4.0

SLACs are doing well and non-CS….

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Anonymous wrote:DD is an English major and got a full time tech writing offer!

This gives me hope! Can you share which school and/or if they did an internship that led to the offer?

Middlebury! They didn't have any internship experience before the offer, but they took a few courses in computer science and had multiple years as a peer writing tutor for the writing center. The perfect position for her.

DS just graduated from Uchicago in CS and Econ, currently looking for work and failing.

Anonymous wrote:DD is an English major and got a full time tech writing offer!

This gives me hope! Can you share which school and/or if they did an internship that led to the offer?

internships are key!

DD is an English major and got a full time tech writing offer!

DD s a rising senior Econ major at T20 and has a consulting internship this summer and just received a full time job offer after graduation.

Anonymous wrote:Did these kids without jobs not have internships? Can you help with your network?

I’ve already reminded my incoming college freshman that he needs to start networking as soon as he gets on campus and hit the ground running for an internship for next summer.

PP with physics daughter. She had an internship, but the entry market is awful right now and hiring is not that great and very competitive, even with a high-value network. One of her childhood friends' got a job in tech and was subsequently fired the next week and then had to deal with hiring freezes.

Did these kids without jobs not have internships? Can you help with your network?

I’ve already reminded my incoming college freshman that he needs to start networking as soon as he gets on campus and hit the ground running for an internship for next summer.

DD '24 graduated from HYP with a physics major and...is currently teaching at a boarding school, because she couldn't find work. 4.0 with a lot of research and tech skills but just couldn't get anything. Most of her friends are off to med school or fellowships, so she's feeling a bit distraught. I feel horrible and like I failed to support, but I know she'll figure it out.

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

Which school? Applied math or pure mathematics?

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

We suggested to DD to get into computational math research and now she makes great money at "Meta."

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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.

There's also the fact that alternative investments such as art are popular with rich folks. So you get the usual strong skills from of writing and critical thinking from an LAC plus some specialized knowledge that is likely rare among investment bankers. It may help in helping pick art and just being an 'interesting' person to rich clients if you are in a client-facing role. Billionaire art investors often hire art historians to build their collections and manage the documentation and showing of works. I personally know two who have this job.

This is more of a stretch--but art history involves a lot of pattern recognition of things that are hard to quantify like style (assessments often involve looking at relatively unknown art works and needing to write an argument for what period, location, artist etc. you think it's from and why)--I wonder if that taps into a valued skill now that so much of what investment bankers used to do is automated.