Anonymous
10/30/2024 10:05
Subject: 2024 grads- job placement
2024 jobs update:
After two different ivy parents' weekends, here is a summary:
95 and 98% of 2024 grads had a job when the surveys were done, both 2 months post graduation.
Average salaries were highest for Engineering majors(115k, 122k); both said no slow down in hiring in CS. Overall starting salary for all majors was $87k and $89k, not including signing bonuses which averaged 12k.
After two different ivy parents' weekends, here is a summary:
95 and 98% of 2024 grads had a job when the surveys were done, both 2 months post graduation.
Average salaries were highest for Engineering majors(115k, 122k); both said no slow down in hiring in CS. Overall starting salary for all majors was $87k and $89k, not including signing bonuses which averaged 12k.
Anonymous
08/18/2024 07:12
Subject: 2024 grads- job placement
Brown grad who loved the fun Ivy and graduated in May. Now in PE.
Anonymous
08/17/2024 16:14
Subject: 2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:My DD is considering studying Public Policy at UVA. Do any of you know how recent grads are doing in this field? She is also considering to double major in Public Health. Would that combo open more doors?
My kid has not graduated yet but is in the Batten school. Has had great internships so i think he’ll do well but beware it is an application based major. Not as competitive as McIntire but still competitive.
Anonymous
08/17/2024 15:22
Subject: 2024 grads- job placement
My DD is considering studying Public Policy at UVA. Do any of you know how recent grads are doing in this field? She is also considering to double major in Public Health. Would that combo open more doors?
Anonymous
08/17/2024 10:33
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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).
Search for an old post on here about anthropology at Dartmouth as a very popular “gateway” major to investment banking and Wall Street.
Yet. Lots of Dartmouth anthro majors making bank.
This is some strange urban myth…I guarantee you there are more Dartmouth Econ, Math and other quantitative majors making bank over anthro majors.
Two things can be true?
What two things? You really believe any one humanities major at Dartmouth has a pipeline to Wall Street over another?
What?
Part 1:Yet. Lots of Dartmouth anthro majors making bank
Part 2:This is some strange urban myth…I guarantee you there are more Dartmouth Econ, Math and other quantitative majors making bank over anthro majors.
Neither Parts are mutually exclusive and both can be true, because there's also....lots of Dartmouth alum.
There really aren’t that many in general because it’s a small school.
I would just caution anyone studying anthropology at Dartmouth because they think it is some strange back channel to Wall Street.
Anonymous
08/17/2024 10:29
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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).
Search for an old post on here about anthropology at Dartmouth as a very popular “gateway” major to investment banking and Wall Street.
Yet. Lots of Dartmouth anthro majors making bank.
This is some strange urban myth…I guarantee you there are more Dartmouth Econ, Math and other quantitative majors making bank over anthro majors.
Two things can be true?
What two things? You really believe any one humanities major at Dartmouth has a pipeline to Wall Street over another?
What?
Part 1:Yet. Lots of Dartmouth anthro majors making bank
Part 2:This is some strange urban myth…I guarantee you there are more Dartmouth Econ, Math and other quantitative majors making bank over anthro majors.
Neither Parts are mutually exclusive and both can be true, because there's also....lots of Dartmouth alum.
Anonymous
08/17/2024 10:23
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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).
Search for an old post on here about anthropology at Dartmouth as a very popular “gateway” major to investment banking and Wall Street.
Yet. Lots of Dartmouth anthro majors making bank.
This is some strange urban myth…I guarantee you there are more Dartmouth Econ, Math and other quantitative majors making bank over anthro majors.
Two things can be true?
What two things? You really believe any one humanities major at Dartmouth has a pipeline to Wall Street over another?
Anonymous
08/17/2024 10:15
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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).
Search for an old post on here about anthropology at Dartmouth as a very popular “gateway” major to investment banking and Wall Street.
Yet. Lots of Dartmouth anthro majors making bank.
This is some strange urban myth…I guarantee you there are more Dartmouth Econ, Math and other quantitative majors making bank over anthro majors.
Two things can be true?
Anonymous
08/17/2024 10:14
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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).
Search for an old post on here about anthropology at Dartmouth as a very popular “gateway” major to investment banking and Wall Street.
Yet. Lots of Dartmouth anthro majors making bank.
This is some strange urban myth…I guarantee you there are more Dartmouth Econ, Math and other quantitative majors making bank over anthro majors.
Anonymous
08/17/2024 09:39
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Twins graduated this year!
DT1- Graduate of UT for Architecture and went straight into a New York Architecture firm and is doing part time screenwriting work, and loving it
DT2- Graduate of Swarthmore Honors in Chemistry is off to Med School in Mass but is first going on an international fellowship
Really exciting times for both, but a sad mama here missing them a bit
DT1- Graduate of UT for Architecture and went straight into a New York Architecture firm and is doing part time screenwriting work, and loving it
DT2- Graduate of Swarthmore Honors in Chemistry is off to Med School in Mass but is first going on an international fellowship
Really exciting times for both, but a sad mama here missing them a bit
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:53
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DD graduate from Amherst, 3.8, Gender Studies/Art history, unemployed and still looking…
LOL ! Did you expect any different result ?
It's the Amherst troll.
We have an Amherst troll ?
If that is what you got from the post you referenced, then you need to concentrate a bit more as you totally missed the point. But, yeah, shame on Amherst College for allowing an assumed bright student spending the money of a good family for this. I hope & pray that the family has significant wealth.
A massive one who spends all their time purposely trying to make Amherst look terrible, because they're bitter. It's stupid.
Again, you miss the point. Not making fun of Amherst College, but am disgusted by the waste of a young mind at such an otherwise outstanding school. I'll bet the first thing this student does when meeting others is to announce her pronouns. Do you realize how silly it is to waste one's intelligence and a golden opportunity to study at one of the country's best colleges on gender studies/art history ? These are hobbies that can be done while sitting on the toilet. No need to pay $90,000 a year for four years to become a barista. Wasted time, wasted mind.
This is why we need legal immigration into this country. Bring in folks from other areas of the world who have enough common sense & work ethic to help our economy.
If it was such a waste of a degree, Amherst wouldn't offer it.
Lol. You haven't spent much time in the real world--have you ?
Nope. Just a working adult who isn't obsessed with elite colleges, has a normal job, and as to deal with entitled idiots on this forum. Some of us come from the "real world" and know that an Amherst degree in general puts you ahead of so much of the applicant pool.
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:53
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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).
Search for an old post on here about anthropology at Dartmouth as a very popular “gateway” major to investment banking and Wall Street.
Yet. Lots of Dartmouth anthro majors making bank.
Nothing to do with majoring in anthro; the Dartmouth kids were hired for their ability to hold their liquor while socializing.
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:51
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DD graduate from Amherst, 3.8, Gender Studies/Art history, unemployed and still looking…
LOL ! Did you expect any different result ?
It's the Amherst troll.
We have an Amherst troll ?
If that is what you got from the post you referenced, then you need to concentrate a bit more as you totally missed the point. But, yeah, shame on Amherst College for allowing an assumed bright student spending the money of a good family for this. I hope & pray that the family has significant wealth.
A massive one who spends all their time purposely trying to make Amherst look terrible, because they're bitter. It's stupid.
Again, you miss the point. Not making fun of Amherst College, but am disgusted by the waste of a young mind at such an otherwise outstanding school. I'll bet the first thing this student does when meeting others is to announce her pronouns. Do you realize how silly it is to waste one's intelligence and a golden opportunity to study at one of the country's best colleges on gender studies/art history ? These are hobbies that can be done while sitting on the toilet. No need to pay $90,000 a year for four years to become a barista. Wasted time, wasted mind.
This is why we need legal immigration into this country. Bring in folks from other areas of the world who have enough common sense & work ethic to help our economy.
If it was such a waste of a degree, Amherst wouldn't offer it.
Lol. You haven't spent much time in the real world--have you ?
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:47
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DS Art History/Political Economy Major at a t10. Going into Art conservation at a major museum in New York!
Congratulations! DC has similar goals and is going to a t10 class of 2028
How exciting for you and your family! I had early anxieties about him leaving the nest, but he's really done well in the environment and has found a ton of opportunity. You're gonna love it!
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:33
Subject: 2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Who are you people who treat college as merely a vocational school? There is something to be said for learning for the sake of learning. Being curious and well-rounded. Critically-thinking and arguing.
Lots of you on here are examples of why those things are needed. Greatly needed.
Tell that to all the students at elite schools where most are majoring in Econ, Math, and CS. Very few people have the economic privilege to just blatantly ignore the state of the economy: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/business/gen-z-college-students-jobs.html. It is ridiculous to pretend that students can still go into Medieval Latin and Theatre degrees and end up on top, on average. There's always a hundred edge cases accompanied with millions of failures. Students today are "selling out" and pivoting into financial roles in what they're interested in, and that is fine.