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I have to agree with you. People disguise, or are encouraged to disguise, their true intentions and motivation. This makes one a hypocrite and be disingenuous. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, wrong with pursuing a goal that truly motivates you. Why is pursuing an investment banking career taken as immature? Any talented highschool varsity football player will be aspiring to become an NFL player. Why would he be aspiring to become an NFL player? For fame only? Or for the sake of ‘learning’ to play better at one’s sport? What a nonsense and a hypocrite. The money that a profession brings is as big a motivating factor as any in this country or anywhere in the world, especially if you have grown up in a poverty stricken neighborhood or family. When one advises the student to fabricate a zeal for learning when one’s desire lies elsewhere, he should be kidding. better shutup. Like one Harvard applicant who said in his application, whose essay was picked as one of the 50 best essays for that year, to paraphrase, ‘you work hard for your goal, if getting admitted into a college is your goal, what is wrong with doing things and working hard for things that look good for college admission?’
It is not noble to force fit yourself to a perceived notion of what the college may want in its applicants. To be successful in a major that will lead to an ibanking job in wallstreet, well, learn he will to maximize his chances. don’t worry.</p>