<p>What kind of career prospects are there for UChicago and GTown grads? Are they somewhat similar?</p>
<p>Yes but the students are very different.</p>
<p>Yeah, I am currently considering both, but leaning towards Chicago.</p>
<p>Georgetown and Chicago are both great, but in term of placement, they are different. I'd say Georgetown will probably be a little better if you are aming at a career in Politics/Diplomacy or Law and Chicago would be better if you are looking to join Academe (as a professor or researcher) or a top IB/MC. </p>
<p>So the question is, what sortof career are you looking for?</p>
<p>from my experience, and i mean only my experience and not as a generalization, is that uchicago is a really nerdy really smart school. the kids are pretty brilliant and the school is under rated in my opinion, but they seriously lack social skills. well, theyll still proabably be your boss someday. my uncle went there, i visited the campus a couple times when he goes there for alumni stuff. anyywys, expect to get a pretty good, but pretty boring education there.</p>
<p>people who lack social skills can never be bosses.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHA. Bosses don't need to have skills schmoozing or telling jokes to get their jobs. Graduating with a degree from chicago is more than enough.</p>
<p>"HAHAHAHA. Bosses don't need to have skills schmoozing or telling jokes to get their jobs. Graduating with a degree from chicago is more than enough."</p>
<p>Yea, wait until your in the real world. I assume your a student to be so disillusioned, correct?</p>
<p>I am a student. And I strongly believe that people overrate the importance of social skills in a business setting to make themselveves feel better about future empolyment when they havent many other laurels to rest on. In most top i-banking firms, I can't say its exactly the friendly people who make it to the top. How many clients do you really think a smile will buy?</p>
<p>With so much qualified graduates do you REALLY think the skills can be discriminated to the extent that 8-9 positions are filled from hundreds of people submitting their resumes? Or even seperate from skills, where they graduated? There's enough harvard and wharton students looking to get into ibanking to fill all jobs positions, why would a bulge bracket even consider UChicago over them? Personality plays such a large role its ridiculous, begining with the networking. IBankers look for people with whom they will spend countless hours working with, they don't want some ******* just because he can do the work.
And in IBanking people who make it to the top are people who are able to handle year after year of 100 hour weeks producing results and maintain the friendly face. Clients are not impressed by *******s who know their stuff, they're convinced by personable people who know their stuff.
THAT is the true corporate filter.</p>
<p>social skill, usually, is under-rated.</p>
<p>ibanking is all about the personality.</p>
<p>I hear mixed facts about the ibanker's personality. Some say they need amazing social skills, and I don't doubt it. Yet others make it seem like they're just workaholics and pretty much have no personality. What kind of people are they really?</p>
<p>"And I strongly believe that people overrate the importance of social skills in a business setting to make themselveves feel better about future empolyment when they havent many other laurels to rest on. In most top i-banking firms, I can't say its exactly the friendly people who make it to the top. How many clients do you really think a smile will buy?"</p>
<p>Well, we will disagree then. Personally I think your totally off base. Not even close.</p>
<p>"And I strongly believe that people overrate the importance of social skills in a business setting to make themselveves feel better about future empolyment when they havent many other laurels to rest on."</p>
<p>More like you ovverate acedemics importance to make yourself feel better because you know you don't have any social skills. That's a bit more probable. By the way I'm not Mr. Social Skills myself, but I do understand their imporance.</p>
<p>"I can't say its exactly the friendly people who make it to the top. How many clients do you really think a smile will buy?" </p>
<p>What does smiling have to do with social skills? It's one characeterstic of what makes up social skills. </p>
<p>Everything I see tells me that it's ideal to have a balance of social Skills and academic smarts in the business world. Ideally it would be great to be a master of both, but if you could only have one over the other social skills is so much more valuable. </p>
<p>I could see a high school dropout with amazing social skills (would need some business sense as well) getting higher in business than and Harvard MBA or PHD who has hoorrible social skills. Of course theyd never get into HArvard in the first place, but that's not the point.</p>
<p>You need to strike a balance with social skills being marginally more important.</p>