Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 22:42     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
Stats of job/salary not complete unless you also post how many hours/week of work.
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 21:59     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
Anonymous wrote:This thread is making me feel terrible. I’m a math/cs major from a T30, but plan to become a teacher, so I really only expect 50k. Feels like I’m behind everyone and doing something wrong.


Don’t do it. I’m a math teacher who did that and 27 years in. You can always switch to teaching later. If you are a math/cs major, get a different job first. Do not go into teaching right away. After years of teaching it will be extremely difficult to leave if you change your mind. But the opposite is not true. If you get a job in math or computer science you will make a lot more money and you can slash switch to teaching later. Learn from my mistake!
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 21:43     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
Thank you. The humblebragging makes me ill. But this is the college thread, so what should I expect.
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 21:33     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
Folks, let’s tone it down a bit and only report jobs/salaries <100k.
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 21:33     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
75k and we’re happy. Really glad for the AI whiz kids too who are making bank out of school. Life is a marathon not a sprint and where you start is not where you finish.
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 21:12     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
Hallelujah. Finally some people whose kids are in normal jobs coming out of college. Congratulations to your kids on landing a job. Best of luck to them.
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 20:56     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
70k
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 20:54     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
Well, my company regularly receives thousands of applications for entry level positions that pay $55k, many from top schools.
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 20:48     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This thread is making me feel terrible. I’m a math/cs major from a T30, but plan to become a teacher, so I really only expect 50k. Feels like I’m behind everyone and doing something wrong.

Well, you chose this career path because you didn’t care about money that much.


Seriously, that is what you say to a young person feeling insecure because their righteous work is underpaid and undervalued in this country?

Young person: this country needs people like you. It is my fervent hope that someday the work of teachers and helping professionals will be more valued. Ignore the so called "grownups" on this board who seek prestige and status in the form of low admit schools, SAT scores, and money. That is not all there is to life. Best wishes.

Relax! No idea how someone could be offended by that kind of comment. It was obviously stating the fact that PP didn’t care about money which didn’t have any negative connotation. It was simply an observation, not a judgment. Let’s try to assume good intent and keep things in perspective.
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 20:46     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
Anonymous wrote:Please include year of graduation, university (or type), industry (or even company)

Would be interested to see outcomes after all the stress kids and parents (emphasis on latter) go through when it comes to getting into college


2027, SLAC, low six figures working in the family’s foundation to learn and grow to a leadership role.
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 20:39     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This thread is making me feel terrible. I’m a math/cs major from a T30, but plan to become a teacher, so I really only expect 50k. Feels like I’m behind everyone and doing something wrong.

Well, you chose this career path because you didn’t care about money that much.


Seriously, that is what you say to a young person feeling insecure because their righteous work is underpaid and undervalued in this country?

Young person: this country needs people like you. It is my fervent hope that someday the work of teachers and helping professionals will be more valued. Ignore the so called "grownups" on this board who seek prestige and status in the form of low admit schools, SAT scores, and money. That is not all there is to life. Best wishes.
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 20:19     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Let me guess. The person who started this thread is the same one whose kid is making a fortune doing AI. They started it so they could brag. So typical DCUM.

And I'm sure everyone else's kid is in a top group at Goldman or a premier hedge fund or MBB or whatever else. Because no one is average at DCUM - it is where only the 0.1% gather.

I’m the MIT parent in this thread and I’m not the OP, neither did I mention my kids doing AI before. If you take this as a brag, so be it. It’s not gonna bother me.
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 20:17     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
Anonymous wrote:Let me guess. The person who started this thread is the same one whose kid is making a fortune doing AI. They started it so they could brag. So typical DCUM.

And I'm sure everyone else's kid is in a top group at Goldman or a premier hedge fund or MBB or whatever else. Because no one is average at DCUM - it is where only the 0.1% gather.

I’m the MIT parent in this thread and I’m not the OP, neither did I mentioned my kids doing AI before. If you take this as a brag, so be it. It’s not gonna bother me.
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 20:14     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
I’ve clarified in the previous post. But here it is again. Mid six figures =~500k, high six figures =close to 1mil.
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2025 20:08     Subject: Starting salary or expected for your child
Let me guess. The person who started this thread is the same one whose kid is making a fortune doing AI. They started it so they could brag. So typical DCUM.

And I'm sure everyone else's kid is in a top group at Goldman or a premier hedge fund or MBB or whatever else. Because no one is average at DCUM - it is where only the 0.1% gather.