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Anonymous wrote:One child is a '25 Cornell grad, and he is still jobless after a year of searching. DD is about to graduate from Cornell, and she is still searching for a job for the past nine months. She was offered a full-time position after her internship, but it was rescinded due to company-wide layoff. Both are in STEM field. It is absolutely awful out there.

this is awful

Anonymous wrote:One child is a '25 Cornell grad, and he is still jobless after a year of searching. DD is about to graduate from Cornell, and she is still searching for a job for the past nine months. She was offered a full-time position after her internship, but it was rescinded due to company-wide layoff. Both are in STEM field. It is absolutely awful out there.

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Anonymous wrote:One child is a '25 Cornell grad, and he is still jobless after a year of searching. DD is about to graduate from Cornell, and she is still searching for a job for the past nine months. She was offered a full-time position after her internship, but it was rescinded due to company-wide layoff. Both are in STEM field. It is absolutely awful out there.

Is the “25 grad underemployed or no job at all? My ‘26 is seeing all the stories of ‘25 grads still looking and I am wondering if they are working but not in the field of their degree.

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Anonymous wrote:Headed to MIT for an architecture/engineering graduate program—Masters with an option to continue to PhD.

I’ve never heard of this. Almost always a PhD admission is separate of masters admission and masters students typically can’t just continue onto a PhD program, since those are funded opportunities that drain resources. Is it an unfunded PhD offer?

It’s funded.

Then he got into a PhD program. No one accepts a student to a masters and an unconditional PhD offer, with the option of just initially not having a PhD at all. That’s nonsensical from a Departmental finance and planning perspective

Anonymous wrote:One child is a '25 Cornell grad, and he is still jobless after a year of searching. DD is about to graduate from Cornell, and she is still searching for a job for the past nine months. She was offered a full-time position after her internship, but it was rescinded due to company-wide layoff. Both are in STEM field. It is absolutely awful out there.

Anonymous wrote:One child is a '25 Cornell grad, and he is still jobless after a year of searching. DD is about to graduate from Cornell, and she is still searching for a job for the past nine months. She was offered a full-time position after her internship, but it was rescinded due to company-wide layoff. Both are in STEM field. It is absolutely awful out there.

Anonymous wrote:One child is a '25 Cornell grad, and he is still jobless after a year of searching. DD is about to graduate from Cornell, and she is still searching for a job for the past nine months. She was offered a full-time position after her internship, but it was rescinded due to company-wide layoff. Both are in STEM field. It is absolutely awful out there.

Anonymous wrote:Received return offer at a BB IB in NYC from a SLAC. Economics major.

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Anonymous wrote:Headed to MIT for an architecture/engineering graduate program—Masters with an option to continue to PhD.

I’ve never heard of this. Almost always a PhD admission is separate of masters admission and masters students typically can’t just continue onto a PhD program, since those are funded opportunities that drain resources. Is it an unfunded PhD offer?

It’s funded.

Then he got into a PhD program. No one accepts a student to a masters and an unconditional PhD offer, with the option of just initially not having a PhD at all. That’s nonsensical from a Departmental finance and planning perspective

Oh, ok. I’ll be sure to tell my child that MIT is lying to her.

+1. PhD here. My grad program in the social sciences commonly admitted students to PhD program straight out of undergrad, who then earn an MS and a PhD. The dept prioritized funding for these students to the same degree that they did for students coming in with a Masters already.

Science masters here—don’t know what that person is talking about. I was accepted to several top programs and at all you could get masters or phd or both—your choice.

You apply to a masters or PhD program. Masters are typically not funded and lowest priority for TAship. In general, if you’re admitted to a PhD program, you first do coursework to get through a masters, then you move on to ABD. Typically a masters student isn’t getting a PhD at the same institution without having to reapply, since PhD admission costs money and they have to pay for your tuition/fees while providing a stipend.

No department with money sense gives a masters student a PhD “option,” without reapplication, because the funding streams are entirely separate.

This isn’t Europe, where a masters is expected for a PhD and a PhD is 3 years.

Not how it worked in my program—everyone admitted to the graduate program. Your choice what degree to get. Tuition covered for everyone. Everyone on a stipend. No reapplying to get the PhD. Same for every department I applied to. Top tier science programs.

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness. Is everyone's child on DCUM an engineer, CS, or finance major?

Or pre-med or nursing, but yes.

No. My liberal arts student received a full-time offer starting two weeks after graduation.

Please, could you be even more vague?

I'm not going to out them. Especially when their friends don't have offers yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness. Is everyone's child on DCUM an engineer, CS, or finance major?

Or pre-med or nursing, but yes.

No. My liberal arts student received a full-time offer starting two weeks after graduation.

Please, could you be even more vague?