<p>Now that I'm accepted to Cornell, I want to know the best thing to study to get rich after Cornell. What is it?</p>
<p>What an odd question - how did you describe your academic interest on your application? Obviously, it wasn’t sincere…</p>
<p>to get rich? haha
doctor? lawyer? business?
lol
what a funny question</p>
<p>u work ur ass off, that’s all</p>
<p>Just because you go to Cornell does not mean youre going “to be rich”. I know people who went to community and state colleges that are wealthier then ivy graduates. You have to work for it.</p>
<p>LOL
i like how you’re so direct about it
all like “B1*CH WHERE MA DOLLAS AT”
but yeah as everyone said
you’re just going to have to work hard
ILL SEE YOU THERE FALL 2011</p>
<p>definitely dont do medicine if you want to be rich. i say go business (AEM) or computer science. a senior graduating this year got a investment banking job with like 75k starting salary and almost double that in bonuses… though other business jobs are around 100k including bonuses. CS can also land very good jobs from big companies like ibm, microsoft, google, apple… etc. and these are just starting salaries …</p>
<p>■■■■■ thread omg…</p>
<p>Why doesn’t medicine have a big pay off? I thought doctors made the highest salaries in the country.</p>
<p>^Naw, with the new healthcare reform, doctors can barely make ends meet. Early childhood education: now that’s where the big bucks are made. Trust me on this one.</p>
<p>a ■■■■■ post from me then 
can you make big bucks in computer engineering? perhaps in management? lol</p>
<p>@ForTheWolf, you do realize that the new legislation could not have possibly impacted doctor’s salaries yet? Most of Obamacare goes into effect in 2014. I hope you were ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>Anyways, we cannot say for sure, but it is true that doctors could see a decline in pay. On the other hand, this bill will send the demand for doctors skyrocketing. The increase in demand could actually everything out in some areas. Those working with the impoverished, however, are, to be blunt, SCREWED.</p>
<p>do what the students at Columbia did …</p>
<p>j/k</p>
<p>■■■■■ thread</p>
<p>egg donation. See the ad in the Daily Sun.</p>
<p>End thread.</p>
<p>This was actually a serious question. Unlike you guys, I don’t want to go to Cornell and work hard for 4 years not to be rich. Clearly you guys don’t care about money, but I do. I just want to know which majors have the highest payoffs.</p>
<p>nurses are taking over doctors jobs at 1/2 their pay.</p>
<p>what is your definition of “rich”? $100,000/year? $250,000/year? $500,000 plus the same in bonus/year?</p>
<p>pay in the same fields varies - city to city - company to company - speciality to speciality…</p>
<p>Start a small business or go premed. </p>
<p>Or be a Wharton kid.</p>
<p>it is pretty hard to be a Wharton grad from Cornell. </p>
<p>if you start a small business, since about 80% of new businesses fail, that is a great way to become poor, not rich. (percentagewise)</p>
<p>if you take out loans to go to med school it could well take you a while to pay back those loans. being pre-med is one thing - being a medical student is another.</p>
<p>80 % of those businesses fail because they dont have a solid, sustainable, business model. The percentages mean close to nothing since we don’t know if these people are even sophisticated enough to implement basic business strategy learned from school. We all know that any nitwit with a bank account can open a business. I have been lucky enough to rub shoulders with a myriad of business owners. Some educated in business, some not.But it is the people that have the street smarts and the education that are the ones that are successful in the long run.</p>