Anonymous wrote: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.

Do most kids find their internships through school?

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

Was DS1 an athlete? The athlete SLAC liberal arts major to IB path seems quite common.

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

You skipped over the job part

On the hill as a policy analyst

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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).

The math/finance/modelling parts of the job anyone with an above average IQ can figure out/be taught (and these are the easiest things to teach in-house). It is the lateral thinking, communication, creative narrative making (presentation) & relationship building that really drive success (with a lot of hunger & drive). Some engineers & finance majors can do this, but SLAC liberal arts majors (especially athletes) have been great bets over the years. Look at the CEO's of major banks - I believe most are liberal arts majors (many SLAC). The technical stuff can be taught, but if you leave the person with a CEO or CFO on a site visit (with 2-3 hours of car time alone), can they keep the conversation going? Do they have gravitas? Is finance changing, yes, but decisions on IB mandates still rest with individuals. The trading floor will be more of the domain of the CS & quant jocks (but things like OTC derivatives still require the 'charm and bully' skillset as structured products have to be sold).

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

You skipped over the job part

Yes- how is student paying for amazing apartment??

W&M grad, Environmental science/public policy, FT work for a government contractor doing environmental assessments.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

That's great! congratulations! Right now it is halfway of the summer internship, do companies already start to make full time offers?

It actually is near the end for most…all my kids’ friends working at Google, consulting, IBanks are done either end of July or first week August.

Friend's son, CS from Brown, no job yet

Anonymous wrote: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.

That's great! congratulations! Right now it is halfway of the summer internship, do companies already start to make full time offers?

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

You skipped over the job part

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.