<p>Sorry, but if you have spent time on ANY of the campuses you are slamming, you will realize that you are describing a very small subset of a very small population.</p>
<p>A high percentage of kids spend zero time at Career Services during junior and senior year. Zero. The jobs they want- in education, at foundations, policy analyst in Parliament or Congress or in the State House of where they grew up-- don’t recruit on campus through career services. Arts organizations? No recruiting presence. Journalism, NGO’s… not recruiting on campus.</p>
<p>The kids who want to be I-bankers go through the recruiting process and some of the end up in these jobs. But to claim that the culture of these universities is what creates the thinking of a small subset who want these jobs… and an even smaller number of them actually gets these jobs… that’s just absurd logic.</p>
<p>I work for a company that hires new grads. We use campus recruiting services of all these top schools. We also lament (pretty constantly) that we aren’t seeing the tippy top of the class. Why? Those kids are going off to Teach for America, Peace Corps, med school, working at Brookings or Cato or the ACLU, getting a journalism fellowship to cover the conflict in the Sudan, or working in fine arts conservation at a museum. As a non-bank, we don’t compete with the I-banks for talent-- we compete with the rest of humanity. The culture at virtually all of these schools is highly supportive of doing something for society when you graduate.</p>
<p>For every MIT kid who went off to price derivatives in the last 10 years, you could find 10 kids doing medical research, working at a start-up developing green energy sources, or completing a dissertation on how to eradicate malaria.</p>