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<p>Hedge fund jobs are arguably (PE, VC) the tippy top tier in the finance world. No surprises there.</p>
<p>Ok so…</p>
<p>It’s only needed for high finance?</p>
<p>What if you don’t want to do high finance?</p>
<p>Bingotingo:</p>
<p>What do you want to major in/do when you graduate?</p>
<p>Why are you convinced that your life is a failure (think about what you said, do you really believe this) if you don’t go to the ‘right’ school? </p>
<p>This might just be a lot of drama on your part, but please look around and talk to people and see where they came from. 99% of us went to ordinary schools, some didn’t even go to college, and most of us are quite happy and ‘successful’. </p>
<p>Pursue your dream, and quit worrying about what others think or what the media/TV portrays, and you will be happy. Please remember that success is more than a good job, lots of money, etc. In fact, those are probably not the markers of real success at all.</p>
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<p>Well, then, you don’t want to do high finance. Shrug. What? Is high finance something that you think you “should” want to do? If so, whatever for?</p>
<p>But his life maybe over if he didn´t do high finance.</p>
<p>@Pizzagirl The money.</p>
<p>@oldfort What do you mean?</p>
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<p>Good point. Goose, gander, different sauces.</p>
<p>Who gave you the impression that the only high paying job out there is high finance, and why are you so desperate to make money versus pursue a job you enjoy?</p>
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Seriously? If you are already out of school, where are you working? What did you major in? What is the point of this thread?</p>
<p>I should have put a smiley face after my post. I was joking.</p>
<p>I got your dry humor, oldfort. :)</p>
<p>@Jym I’m in high school. I’m 15.</p>
<p>@Pizzagirl Isn’t it the highest paying job?</p>
<p>@Oldfort Sorry about that lol.</p>
<p>Sorry-- blowing the BS whistle on this one. You are full of baloney, bingo. At 15 you have caused yourself a life of trauma because you dont have an elite degree. Ya gotta love the ■■■■■ threads!</p>
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<p>How do you “know how it is on cc” if you “just” joined cc the day you posted this? My, you really must be a fast reader.</p>
<p>@Jym exactly what is your problem?</p>
<p>What “BS” whistle? I asked a legit question.</p>
<p>If you don’t like me and my threads why don’t you ust ignore them instead of derailing all of them.</p>
<p>Bingo tingo, at 15 you should surely understand that people make money in a bunch of different ways, finance being one of many. You should also understand that plenty of people don’t have elite degrees and do just fine, and that people from elite schools don’t have magic pixie dust that guarantees life success.</p>
<p>That was posted days ago, before you admitted that you were a returned poster with 2 screennames. It was obvious that you were not a “new” poster, as you claimed, and with the mixed report of suggesting you had already ruined your life without an elite degree, yet then said you were 15, it was inconsistent and I was calling BS. </p>
<p>You might also consider doing a search on cc as this question has been asked and answered several times in other threads. The “elite vs non elite” question is a hot topic on cc. </p>
<p>No need to get scrappy. It may cause this thread to get closed too.</p>
<p>Apparently CEO of Yahoo is a job where you don’t need a HYPS degree </p>
<p>[Yahoo</a> CEO Scott Thompson Bio](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/04/BUB21MKSON.DTL]Yahoo”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/04/BUB21MKSON.DTL)</p>
<p>The company may be on the way down, but I heard he’s getting 27 million.</p>
<p>People in the Pizzagirl camp will say that super bright, high testing, multi-talented kids can go to school anywhere and have unlimited success. It only looks like elite college attendance confers advantage because those types of kids usually choose those types of schools if given the opportunity.</p>
<p>Look at the distribution of represented undergraduate schools at top law and medical schools. They are extraordinarily weighted towards those elite undergraduate institutions. Is it because elite colleges select students who can ace MCATs and LSATs and the pedigree otherwise doesn’t matter? It is common to hear on these boards that is the case but I have seen no hard data to support this. Top law firms can and do recruit from a limited number of top law schools that are disproportionately filled with graduates of elite UG institutions. In order to distinguish cause from correlation, one would need inside admissions office data that none of us are privy to but it is easy to see why it appears that UG pedigree matters. As an employer you can look at two applicants who seem nearly matched. One has a degree from a mid-tier institution and the other from a top-tier. The latter competed for his GPA with presumably more competitive classmates. An admissions office four years ago judged the elite grad and corroborated his promise (although mid-tier could have turned them down). Seems like that pedigree is the tie breaker for me.</p>
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She says this because it is true. You can’t seriously dispute this, can you? Talented people don’t need to attend college at all to find unlimited success. </p>
<p>This doesn’t mean that attending an elite school doesn’t confer some advantage, especially, as you point out, if you want to attend an elite law or medical school.</p>
<p>YaleGradandDad: I have read several of your posts regarding undergraduate college impact on graduate/professional school admission and really think you are right.</p>
<p>a few exceptions? sure</p>
<p>another thought: as the economy worsens we may see more and more elite school BAs or BSs who went on to earn elite school PhDs and then decide to apply to elite law and med schools. How will that be for competition?</p>