<p>wht kind of employment can i expect?
is it possible to make 100 k plus?
i wil be going to either brown, princeton, MIT or Caltech.</p>
<p>ok now dont reply saying MIT and Caltech are not Ivy, i know that.</p>
<p>Depends on your major.</p>
<p>If you go into business for yourself selling illegal drugs you can potentially make 100k+ straight out of college. Heck you don't even need to go to college if you're smart enough.</p>
<p>Human trafficking is also quite lucrative these days. (Unethical, but you seem to be motivated by money rather than contribution to society so no problem right?) That involves a lot of supply chain management, problem solving skills, and interpersonal ability. Languages would definitely be an asset.</p>
<p>Racketeering, smuggling, extortion, fraud, and many other illegal activities pay extremely well, partly due to the risk involved.</p>
<p>But if you're talking about legitimate mainstream work, who in their right mind would pay a fresh college grad 100k per year, unless they add value in a way that is incredibly rare in this world? Ivy grads are churned out by the thousands, so your piece of paper isn't going to be sufficient. You'll need abilities that are actually unusual and very attractive in order to differentiate yourself from the masses of ivy grads and convince somebody you are worth 100k per year -- even with 0 full-time real world experience.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
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Exactly. 100,000$ is way, way, way too much. That's completely naive.
Divide by 2, that's where you start (more or less).</p>
<p>...unless you start in a field like IBanking, where you can make SIGNIFICANTLY more straight out of college (up to 110k according to <a href="http://www.careers-in-finance.com/ibsal.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.careers-in-finance.com/ibsal.htm</a> - keep in mind that this was published in 1999, so accounting for inflation and recent extreme profits for investment banks, we can assume the number is a fair bit higher now)</p>
<p>and keep in mind that you will be expected to work 13, 14, 15, 16 hours a day with that kind of salary you are drawing and practically have no social life whatsoever.</p>
<p>Isn't 50k the average at ivies? I think, most internationals should be able to make considerable higher than it.</p>
<p>i wil be going to either brown, princeton, MIT or Caltech</p>
<p>odd. have you been accepted to those schools already? because you were supposed to send in your agreement to enroll a month or so ago :-/</p>
<p>if you go to a top grad school after college, then maybe you can make that kind of money.</p>
<p>i remember reading on msnbc that some harvard business school grads make up to $110,000 straight out of business school.</p>
<p>100k Base Salary is pretty much close to not possible</p>
<p>100k as on overall offer (Including Stocks, Bonus etc) effectively how much you make , is pretty doable for a lot of Banking and Technology firms.</p>
<p>But as far as pure salaries go , the highest range you around looking at as an undergrad is around 75-85k(Tech companies pay lot more "salary" wise as compared to banks which rely on incentives i.e performance based bonuses to dish out the big bucks). The average person will end up with a salary of around 45-55k.</p>
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...unless you start in a field like IBanking, where you can make SIGNIFICANTLY more straight out of college (up to 110k according to <a href="http://www.careers-in-finance.com/ibsal.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.careers-in-finance.com/ibsal.htm</a> - keep in mind that this was published in 1999, so accounting for inflation and recent extreme profits for investment banks, we can assume the number is a fair bit higher now)
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<p>Yeah, I was about to say that 1of42.</p>
<p>The finance sector is incredibly lucrative. And don't forget about bonuses and all those other perks that come along with the basic salary ;)</p>
<p>Nobody is going to give you a base salary of 100k straight out of college unless you add value in a way that is extremely rare on this planet. Yes, with a bonus in some positions you could end up with more than that (gross income, of course). But some years bonuses are big and some years they are tiny. I doubt the expected value of total remuneration for fresh college grads in the first year of work totals 100k, even in investment banking. However given the variance of bonuses, it does sometimes happen.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and this job comes with perks such as increased probability of significantly higher blood pressure, weight gain, deterioration of general health, sleep depravation, massively reduced social life, ridiculously long working hours, high-stress work environment, and hugely increased costs for basic work clothes that your coworkers won't make fun of you for wearing.</p>
<p>OP where are you? :P</p>
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Oh yeah, and this job comes with perks such as increased probability of significantly higher blood pressure, weight gain, deterioration of general health, sleep depravation, massively reduced social life, ridiculously long working hours, high-stress work environment, and hugely increased costs for basic work clothes that your coworkers won't make fun of you for wearing.
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<p>Well, I meant perks as in health care and all that fun stuff.</p>
<p>But yeah, I-Banking is extremely miserable.</p>
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is it possible to make 100 k plus?
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<p>Ok, I'm going to answer your question. If you're a recruited hockey player on an Ivy League hockey team like Cornell or Harvard, and you're good enough to get drafted by the NHL, then you'll easily make over 200 k per year straight out of college via the NHL salary rules.</p>
<p>You might have to play in the AHL for a while though.</p>
<p>Healthcare is a perk? Where I come from people have a right to see a doctor whenever they need to, receive care in a hospital whenever they need to, have an operation whenever they need to. It's a strange society where the difference between life and death could be decided by whether or not your employer provides a certain "perk".</p>
<p>Besides, even in the US, where millions of people have no health coverage, isn't it pretty common for employers to pay for private insurance? Bottom level government lackeys get that in the US don't they? Not to mention average employees at most other run-of-the-mill workplaces.</p>