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Anonymous wrote:Tell me more about your kid that you are proud of that got 1100 sats after much study, or had a 3.1 w gpa and got a coveted job, or who went to Towson or U Dayton or Duquesne or kennesaw state or some school most people on this board don’t even discuss or consider.

That’s my kid! He hasn’t graduated yet to you’ll have to wait to see if you think he is impressive enough. But he is a truly fantastic human. He is incredibly competitive and picks up new things to master as a hobby. People gravitate to him and look to him to lead - little kids, peers, coaches, teachers, bosses. And he is kind. He reads people and their motivations and emotions the way more academic people read books.

Yeah, his degree is going to be from a state school that accepts 80% of applicants. But I really don’t think it will matter for this kid. But time will tell, no?

It doesn't have to matter. My uncle barely graduated high school, started a business at 19, and is worth $50m+. Entrepreneurs will come out ahead in a post AI world.

Congrats to your uncle…but entrepreneurs as a whole fail like 90%+ of the time. God bless them because we need the 10% to succeed and the 1% to succeed massively.

Maybe you mean those with the mindset will succeed, because it’s guaranteed that 90% of all actual entrepreneurs will fail.

I think your failure numbers are grossly misstated/misinterpreted. The 90 percent rate must be for tech startups. The average small business failure rate is much lower. Plus business failure is not equal entrepreneurs failure, they often try again.

My numbers are based on people starting true businesses with employees. The business failure rate seems lower than it really is because there are so many sole member S Corps / LLCs who basically consult for themselves and never completely fail because no rent, employees, etc. They still count in the numbers of new businesses.

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Anonymous wrote:Well…. I have twins…. Both just graduated…..one at an Ivy, the other at a t50 private.

They both studied Economics….. one has 2 job offers as if April….. the other still looking for a job.

Ok, so one of your twins is obviously a loser and it wouldn’t matter where they went to school. What’s your point?

I am an identical twin. Both of us completely on our own financially and otherwise since age 17. Twin was an All American D1 athlete, Phi Beta Kappa, PhD in Econ from a top 5 school. I did well myself, similar grades and D1 athletics and the very top of the class and law review editor at a top 10 school. My parents repeatedly called me a loser. One of my motivations was to crush people like you who call young people losers. Stand behind your insults. What did you do entirely on your own?

Anonymous wrote:Jane Street is not accepting interns from anywhere else but HYPMS (possibly Duke, Penn and a few others)

Your post lacks credibility because you make a firm declarative statement, then allow for exceptions; either you know or you don't know and are just guessing.

Anonymous wrote:Yikes… tensions riding high these days… these boards are brutal.

Amen. Tough crowd

Jane Street is not accepting interns from anywhere else but HYPMS (possibly Duke, Penn and a few others)

Anonymous wrote: Ok, so one of your twins is obviously a loser and it wouldn’t matter where they went to school. What’s your point?

Are you kidding me? Who the hell would write such a terrible thing on a forum where people are just trying to ensure their kids land well and are happy and productive adults?! To whomever wrote this- get therapy, because you have some serious issues.

I've been saying this for years.

My solid B student (with some A's and 2 C's) had no issues getting into several great schools - JMU, FSU, WVU, UCSD, and Pittsburgh. He picked WVU because they offered him the best package. He graduated with a petroleum engineering degree from WVU last May and went right to work making 6-figures.

The work you do in college and the connections you make while there are what matter the most. He formed connections with his most important professors and TAs in the engineering department and followed through each time they posted about or told the class about internships. He had good internships every summer and parlayed his last internship into a job offer upon graduation.

Did he get into his top choice of VT? No. Was he bummed? Sure. But his work ethic proved more valuable than name recognition for his success.

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Anonymous wrote:OP…every school you listed is top 50.

Most of dcum posters only care about top 20 and definitely look down at UMD.

Are you kidding? More of us have kids at UMD than anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:My DC is a junior at UMD at the business school. Got a paid internship this summer, including housing. Other interns at this company attend, Georgia Tech, UVA, Ohio State, Va Tech, among others. No matter what dcum tells you, it comes down to what you do once you are in college. All interns are really bright. No not all hired on the business side. Some CS students are there too. Hope this helps some panicked parents..

Thanks OP! My DD is at UMass Amherst and is in a great STEM internship at NASA so I agree.

+10000

But what about if she went to Fitchburg?

Anonymous wrote:UMD's most recent common data set (2024) shows that the in-state acceptance rate = 50.8% ... top half high schoolers will get accepted ... hence backup

This. Especially coming out of a private school.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me more about your kid that you are proud of that got 1100 sats after much study, or had a 3.1 w gpa and got a coveted job, or who went to Towson or U Dayton or Duquesne or kennesaw state or some school most people on this board don’t even discuss or consider.

That’s my kid! He hasn’t graduated yet to you’ll have to wait to see if you think he is impressive enough. But he is a truly fantastic human. He is incredibly competitive and picks up new things to master as a hobby. People gravitate to him and look to him to lead - little kids, peers, coaches, teachers, bosses. And he is kind. He reads people and their motivations and emotions the way more academic people read books.

Yeah, his degree is going to be from a state school that accepts 80% of applicants. But I really don’t think it will matter for this kid. But time will tell, no?

It doesn't have to matter. My uncle barely graduated high school, started a business at 19, and is worth $50m+. Entrepreneurs will come out ahead in a post AI world.

Congrats to your uncle…but entrepreneurs as a whole fail like 90%+ of the time. God bless them because we need the 10% to succeed and the 1% to succeed massively.

Maybe you mean those with the mindset will succeed, because it’s guaranteed that 90% of all actual entrepreneurs will fail.

I think your failure numbers are grossly misstated/misinterpreted. The 90 percent rate must be for tech startups. The average small business failure rate is much lower. Plus business failure is not equal entrepreneurs failure, they often try again.

Anonymous wrote:Tell me more about your kid that you are proud of that got 1100 sats after much study, or had a 3.1 w gpa and got a coveted job, or who went to Towson or U Dayton or Duquesne or kennesaw state or some school most people on this board don’t even discuss or consider.

Agree with your post, however Duquesne grads, including the law school, often do well in the Pittsburgh area thanks to loyal alumni.

I have a nephew at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. Beautiful area. Low cost school for residents of Georgia. Nephew attends part-time as he is employed full time and does not intend to change employers. Employer pays for his schooling.

Sure, Kennesaw State will not yield the same job opportunities as will a much higher ranked university, but few, if any,at K-State are looking to work on Wall Street, or in NYC or San Francisco.

I just want my kids to be happy.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me more about your kid that you are proud of that got 1100 sats after much study, or had a 3.1 w gpa and got a coveted job, or who went to Towson or U Dayton or Duquesne or kennesaw state or some school most people on this board don’t even discuss or consider.

That’s my kid! He hasn’t graduated yet to you’ll have to wait to see if you think he is impressive enough. But he is a truly fantastic human. He is incredibly competitive and picks up new things to master as a hobby. People gravitate to him and look to him to lead - little kids, peers, coaches, teachers, bosses. And he is kind. He reads people and their motivations and emotions the way more academic people read books.

Yeah, his degree is going to be from a state school that accepts 80% of applicants. But I really don’t think it will matter for this kid. But time will tell, no?

It doesn't have to matter. My uncle barely graduated high school, started a business at 19, and is worth $50m+. Entrepreneurs will come out ahead in a post AI world.

Congrats to your uncle…but entrepreneurs as a whole fail like 90%+ of the time. God bless them because we need the 10% to succeed and the 1% to succeed massively.

Maybe you mean those with the mindset will succeed, because it’s guaranteed that 90% of all actual entrepreneurs will fail.

Anonymous wrote:Well…. I have twins…. Both just graduated…..one at an Ivy, the other at a t50 private.

They both studied Economics….. one has 2 job offers as if April….. the other still looking for a job.

This is so interesting. I heard of a study that tried to figure out how much college prestige helps with the job outcome using identical twins and found not much of a difference. But obviously not in your case. Maybe that is because they were looking for a job in finance? This is a field where college prestige still matters and top firms recruit mostly from target schools.