Fell For The Fit Trap | HYPSM is a real thing I guess

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Well that didn’t answer my question. You answered the question of what the point is to the finance field, not why you think the people moving the money need to be smarter than the scientists and entrepreneurs doing the innovation that you so desperately want to accelerate. I won’t give you a grade on your non-answer LOL.

I may have missed this upthread but I’m just catching on to the fact that all your friends are headed to HPYSM. If you are real, and your so-called problem is real, then I’d say maybe you will find that making new friends at Brown or Dartmouth will help you get over this issue.

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I don’t care that we aren’t going to the same school, I’m upset at the fact that they will inevitably have more opportunities than me.

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Just think how bad you’d feel if you had applied but been rejected and (without the ED boost) didn’t even get into a “lower” Ivy. Who knows? You might not have been accepted to an “Ivy equivalent,” and would have to slum it at some other top 20.

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No they won’t. This is what people have been telling you over and over but you just don’t seem to be listening. What is the point of this thread if you already think you know all the answers?

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If you don’t have opportunities at all the industries/company types you have noted in this thread, that will be 100% on you.

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It’s only money, maybe, maybe not. :man_shrugging:

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“Inevitably”? :thinking:

If your friends do get more opportunities it will be 100% due to your attitude and 0% because you’re going to a “lowly Ivy”.

Anyway it looks like you really don’t like where you’re going. Maybe best to take a gap year.

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Yes. I doubt the OP will thrive at a college they so clearly don’t want to be at.

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WF has some serious problems these days. There’s no way I’d recommend anyone to do any of their own banking there. But if one is looking for a ‘dog-eat-dog’ sort of work environment then the OP should totally go for it.

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You are making four unsupported assumptions:

A. that you would actually have been accepted to a HYPSM, and
B. that you would have access to these theoretical opportunities when you would have graduated.
C. that graduates of your college are less likely to be hired to these jobs.
D. that employers actually know where you applied to college

Do you have any basis for these claims?

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And you concluded this because you handpicked some firms and went on linkedin.

Employers want productive people, not selfish over analytical whiners.

I’m not saying that’s you but that’s how you are appearing.

Different firms recruit at different schools. There are Ivy kids that work for kids that went to name your school - even U of Phoenix.

You got into a top 1% school and you assume you’ll get a top .1% job.

That’s a huge leap/assumption to make - so what would happen if you couldn’t make that leap - and you’re at Harvard. Would you transfer to Oxford?

I think you can see how ridiculous this chat has become.

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I don’t understand then why the data shows HYPSM has so many more employees at these firms if the following is true: HYPSM doesn’t provide more opportunities than a lower ivy (either through OCR, networking, or prestige boosts) and kids at lower ivies are as qualified/smart/driven as HYPSM kids more or less. I seem to be missing part of the puzzle. It’s not like Yalies are gunning for top finance jobs more than Brown/Dartmouth kids.

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I’m not saying I’d get one even if I went to Harvard, I’m saying now I won’t even have the opportunity to get one.

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We’re done. Many users with far more experience have consistently contradicted your asserrtions, yet you keep banging on the same drum. I see no value to keeping this thread open when there is no open-to-listen. Users have suggested next steps, and there’s nothing more to add. Good luck. Closing

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