<p>yea...this one kid in my class has like a 3.8 and wants to go to LSU or Arizona...like i don't understand..he cound go to Vanderbilt or Emory or sumthin...but whateva floats his boat....</p>
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<p>Whatever makes you sleep better.</p>
<p>Just be sure not to look at starting salary stats for Business majors versus LA majors anytime soon, your little bubble might get shattered.</p>
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Just be sure not to look at starting salary stats for Business majors versus LA majors anytime soon, your little bubble might get shattered.
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<p>Last I checked, Goldman Sachs recruits at Harvard, but not at the University of Florida. I wonder why?</p>
<p>Oh, of course business majors will make more than liberal arts majors. That was not the point: we are comparing the earnings of students from top private schools to schools lik the University of Florida. After we compare the earnings, I am afraid it is your bubble that will burst (I've heard of shattered glass, not shattered bubbles. I guess that's what good ol' University of Florida education does for you).</p>
<p>One of our two valedictorians is basically set on going to Colorado State University. And he's a genius. Last year's valedictorian went to CSU as well.</p>
<p>I don't even go to the University of Florida. I go to Texas A&M (Mays Business school). Remind me again which Ivy not named Wharton provides a better business education.</p>
<p>I wouldn't call myself extraordinary or anything, but I had a heck of a lot of accomplishments and what-not in high school and my top choice was (and still is) Louisiana Tech. </p>
<p>My school is very highly respected in my region, I love the atmosphere, and is very highly recruited from in the areas I’m interested in living after I graduate so it was a no-brainer. </p>
<p>Not to mention how much I loathe the attitude so many kids at top schools seem to share...which seems to be well represented in this thread, actually.</p>
<p>The only other school I considered attending (even though, IIT also admitted me and offered scholarships...I mostly just applied there out of curiosity) was A&M…but I only applied there because after Katrina there were some concerns with educational funding in Louisiana. I <em>really</em> didn’t want to go there, though.</p>
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If you go to an elite school, the companies who come to campus to recruit will be numerous and a cut above,
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<p>The notion that only top schools or ivies have great companies that come to the campus to recruit is…well…I’ll be nice and just say it’s wrong.</p>
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The notion that only top schools or ivies have great companies that come to the campus to recruit is…well…I’ll be nice and just say it’s wrong.
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<p>Yeah... those Goldman-Sachs guys conducting interviews in our career centers... they're just imaginary people or something of the sort. The best you can say is "I’ll be nice and just say it’s wrong" because you have no factual evidence to substantiate your point.</p>
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The most highly recruited campuses are:</p>
<p>Amherst College
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
MIT
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Williams College
Yale University</p>
<p>If you wish to major in Business, you can narrow it down to just 11 programs:
Cornell University
Emory University (Goizueta)
Georgetown University (McDonough)
MIT (Sloan)
New York University (Stern)
University of California-Berkeley (Haas)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross)
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Kenan Flagler)
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
University of Virginia (McIntire)
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<p>Huh? I don't see UT - Austin on there. I wonder why...</p>
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Yeah... those Goldman-Sachs guys conducting interviews in our career centers... they're just imaginary people or something of the sort. The best you can say is "I’ll be nice and just say it’s wrong" because you have no factual evidence to substantiate your point.
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<p>Yes, because the job fairs - or whatever you want to call them - that are held during our Fall and Spring quarters don't really happen? Employers also recruit through our Career Center on a year-round basis.</p>
<p>Companies obviously recruit at schools outside of top schools as well. Open your eyes so you can see that you aren't nearly as special as you seem to think you are.</p>
<p>Goldman Sachs does recruit at Texas A&M, and one of my speakers in manangement 105 last semester who did his undergrad studies at Texas A&M and went on to get his MBA at harvard said he felt that the fact that he'd gone through a rigorous business program as an undergrad gave him a huge upperhand over the Ivy kids during his interviews. He said that whereas they may have been as smart as he was, the knowledge he demonstrated about the business world gave him an edge.</p>
<p>Here's some ass cream nspeds, that fall off your high horse is gonna sting.</p>
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Companies recruit at schools outside of the Ivy League. Open your eyes and see that you aren't nearly as special as you seem to think you are.
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<p>Companies recruit everywhere, if that is the point you are trying to make.</p>
<p>The best companies? As in high-powered consulting firms and investment banks recruit at top schools, as indicated in post 49#.</p>
<p>As alexandre continues to state:</p>
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<p>Sure, if you put it in terms of "companies," anyone in college can get in a "company." The point is that elite private institutions have access to certain opportunities that ordinary schools don't.</p>
<p>I love how you equivocate from "great companies" to just "companies." A subtle shift, but an easy one to spot when you expect it from a person who can argue for nothing more.</p>
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<p>Texas A&M is not on that list, either. I'm sorry Vyse. Be sure the door doesn't hit your posterior on the way out.</p>
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<p>Yes... what he felt is ACTUALLY the case...</p>
<p>what kind of idiocy is this? I'm being bombarded with sophomoric arguments.</p>
<p>My goodness...excuse me for assuming that people had some sense to them and didn't always need adjectives when discussing employers.</p>
<p>You may think you're oh-so-amazing, but at some point in your life you're going to **** off the wrong person with that crap.</p>
<p>I dont see Harvard on the list under business either smartass. </p>
<p>I hate to break it to you, but even though texas A&M, UT-Austin, Vanderbilt, etc arent on that list, business are going to be impressed that people who majored in programs at those schools challenged themselves, and learned something with real world applications. </p>
<p>Nobody gives a **** what your SAT score was anymore, and I doubt Goldman sachs is going to be ****ing themselves over your ability to critique the works of Dostoevsky</p>
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<p>Your posts are littered with these sorts of statements, but not once in this thread have I asserted my superiority over anyone here. The fact that you immediately choose to resort to such attacks demonstrates that you cannot follow rational argument. I don't think highly of myself at all, and I definitely do not plan to go into business or anything lucrative.</p>
<p>Guys, this is absolutely pathetic. Now I am beginning to think I am superior, simply because I have not been given a single sound argument.</p>
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Yes... what he felt is ACTUALLY the case...</p>
<p>what kind of idiocy is this? I'm being bombarded with sophomoric arguments.
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<p>Yes, because you're clearly a better judge of the aggregate of his success than he is. Feeling a little insecure buddy? Need some reassurance that spending 30k a year for a liberal arts major was the right move? You're not going to get it here.</p>
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<p>Doesn't change the fact that we are highly recruited. Isn't that supposed to mark a difference between US and other schools? I think so.</p>
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Nobody gives a **** what your SAT score was anymore, and I doubt Goldman sachs is going to be ****ing themselves over your ability to critique the works of Dostoevsky
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<p>That's odd: I never posted my SAT score here anymore, and I definitely did not read anything by Dostoevsky during my career here. </p>
<p>Geez, someone is bitter. He is now claiming I did things that I never did.</p>
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<p>I would hope not. It looks like the closest you can come to holding your own in a debate is stringing together a bunch of sophistic statements and red herrings, all the while asserting that you're better than everyone because of the name of your school. I wouldn't hire you.</p>
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Need some reassurance that spending 30k a year for a liberal arts major was the right move? You're not going to get it here.
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<p>Uhhh... that would explain why the preponderance of Harvard, Yale, and Stanford Law students were LA majors. They are all probably going to make more money than some two-bit idiot from business school in the middle-of-nowhere Texas.</p>
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<p>That was not a response to my argument... try again... I'm sure than A&M education is working!</p>