<p>Hi guys, I'm interested to hear what some of the posters who've already graduated from Cornell are doing now. Please share!</p>
<p>I believe CayugaRed2005 is at Harvard? Or is it MIT? I just forgot. Curious as well. Bump it up!</p>
<p>Well, I know people who have graduated, and some of them are working at JP Morgan, Merril Lynch, Google, Microsoft...etc. Others are going to law school at Penn, USC, Fordham, Harvard, NYU, Northwestern</p>
<p>Working as a research assistant. Moving down to New Orleans to start work at Tulane University School of Medicine as a research assistant until I get into medical school.</p>
<p>I was told by someone on the Tulane adcom I pretty much have guaranteed acceptance if I get a 30 or higher on my MCAT next mont....but, we all know how much a "guarantee" means in medical school admissions :-)</p>
<p>Good luck! Well, I am afraid we will miss you much once you start working and are busy.</p>
<p>I graduated in May 07, just completed a one-year fellowship at the NIH, and now I'm just chilling back in CA.</p>
<p>Norcal, was this a research fellowship? Aren't you going to med school this fall? Any reason why you took a yr off?</p>
<p>i'm going to Columbia (medical campus) to start my PhD in metabolic biology. I just got my housing assignment today and I'm moving to Manhattan in mid-August--yay!</p>
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<li><p>Research fellowship-Yes. My research was 1/2 molecular bio and 1/2 electrophysiology (cystic fibrosis)</p></li>
<li><p>Going to med school in the fall-yes.</p></li>
<li><p>Reason for taking a year off-No meaningful reason outside of the fact I didn't want to rush through my schooling. DC is an awesome city to live in. The NIH is a great place to do research at. And there were a lot of cool peepz to hang out with.</p></li>
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<p>Close. I live with my parents in the Rustbelt. My body has decided not to cooperate with my grand designs for the world.</p>
<p>But I have previously worked for the Brookings Institution (DC) and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. I've been published in academic journals along side Nobel Prize winners and prepared testimony for state legislatures. In my previous life I lived right smack dab between Harvard and MIT, and quite frankly, hated every minute of it. Boston/Cambridge is not all that it is cracked up to be.</p>
<p>Presently? Private sector. Fortune 500 company. I work from home most days, but am frequently in meetings and writing memos to senior management. I'm not all that enamored with the private sector, but it provides health insurance.</p>
<p>Wow, is it 'normal' for Cornell graduates to move on to such great medical/graduate/law schools? At most schools, I'd imagine that it's pretty rare for someone to move on to another Ivy for continued education.</p>
<p>Why would it be rare? I would think that it would be quite common.</p>
<p>Cayuga, I can't tell if you're joking or not, but I suspect you're being serious...that's very impressive! What are you plans for the future? Go back for gov't work? </p>
<p>Peeople89, I think it's actually fairly common for Ivy grads to go on to other similarly ranked schools. </p>
<p>cornell2011--I'm not suprised by what you said. Finance, law, and medicine all seem to be popular choices.</p>
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<p>My interest has always been in the intersection of government policy and market outcomes. How did government policy create so much wealth after WWII? Why did our government willfully allow so many fraudulent mortgages to be made over the last three years? How do people and institutions respond to the incentives inherent in such structures as tax policy, agriculture policy, labor policy?</p>
<p>(And being published next to a Nobel Prize winner is less impressive than it seems. And there are people much more impressive than yours truly at Cornell.)</p>
<p>So I was thinking about going on for either a PhD or a joint JD of some sort.</p>
<p>But now, I need to see. If my health doesn't improve maybe I will just move back to Ithaca and find a job counseling students. It's something I have always enjoyed.</p>
<p>My fellow ILR 07s who went to grad school immediately upon graduation went to these places--</p>
<p>Princeton: PhD in History (focusing on labor history)
U Penn: PhD in Education
MIT: PhD at Sloan School of Management
Stanford: Masters in Education
Harvard Law School: At least three who I know of</p>
<p>I can't remember all of the other law schools or masters programs. Also, these just include the subset of people I knew, and those who went straight to grad programs. My impression is that ILR had exceptionally good grad placement, even compared to other Cornell programs.</p>
<p>I'm an '08 ILRie, I'm going to be working for a major bank. </p>
<p>Some of my friends from this past year are doing the following after graduating.
Grad schools:
UChigaco for MA in public policy (decided between G'Town and Yale)
Harvard Law (2 friends)
Stanford Law
Fordham Law (2 friends)
Dozens of other law schools here and there, I forget them all</p>
<p>Work:
A bunch will also be working for banks (Goldman Sachs, Citi, JP Morgan, and Lehman)
IBM Consultants (2 of them, and they're best friends too)
Google
Microsoft HR
Facebook (incredible perks)
Some non-profit
Teach for America
Bain consulting (2 people I know)
Boston Consulting group (1 person)</p>
<p>^ that is cool. people die to work at Google, don't they?</p>
<p>well, it's all about the perks. The benefits are just incredible, free gourmet food all day, bring your laundry in and they'll clean/press it all for free, great on-site athletic facilities, plus loads and loads more. My friend at facebook will be getting very similar perks. </p>
<p>The downside of these 2 companies is the pay - banks will pay you almost twice as much in the first year of work.</p>