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<p>I suspect that the OP meant to say, albeit perhaps confusingly, is that “I was rejected from every Ivy except Cornell - and I was also rejected from - Duke and Northwestern”. </p>
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<p>While I don’t disagree with the sentiment, the irony is that political science knowledge is arguably just as valuable as economics or business knowledge within the modern-day investment banking industry. Let’s face it - if that industry was actually subject to pure economic and business forces, then practically every major Ibanking participant would have defaulted during the last few years. They survived only because of unprecedented worldwide political intervention. Interesting future academic research might surely be conducted not on how investment banks behave as economic or business institutions but rather as political institutions.</p>