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<p>Well, I didn’t say the choice of school is not important. But you are someone who clearly had a lot of choices. A lot of people won’t have the choices you had. The notion of get into Wharton or you’re screwed, though, is pretty silly. </p>
<p>For one thing, for someone who doesn’t have the mind, talent, or personality to work in the places you are talking about, what you are saying is pretty irrelevant. I was asked at one point in my life why I didn’t take a job with a prominent i-bank. My response was that i-banking and me were like oil and water. I would have hated it and flamed out. I knew a woman who went to Stanford, but focused on her art, and ended up getting a McJob…are you suggesting she should have gone and worked for McKinsey instead? You sound way too smart to suggest that. Trust me…she wasn’t the kind of person McKinsey would look for.</p>
<p>People need to be really cognizant of their own talents and limitations, and work from there. That applies within the reaches of the Ivy League as much as outside of it. </p>
<p>My post was directed at someone who felt imperiled at the prospect of not getting into the kind of school you’re at. And by the way, with the right classes, it’s quite possible that a 3.8 from Rutgers would have a better chance getting into med school than a 3.4 from Penn SAS.</p>
<p>I am extremely familiar with Wharton’s alumni network, and there is no doubt that kind of thing can help one out…in particular if one wants to go into finance. For your interests, it sounds like you made exactly the right choice…but that doesn’t make it the right choice for all or indicate that for people that don’t have your talents or choices that they are screwed.</p>