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<p>I don’t think that’s correct. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton don’t have accounting majors.</p>
<p>Data 10 is spot on. Californiaa, you are laboring under misperception s about how the US works. I’m very sorry that in your home country, you were taught that everyone bows to Ivy degrees and scoffs at others. It doesn’t work that way here. I know it’s hard for you to believe but there are tons of successful people – many of whom could buy and sell you many times over – with degrees from not-fancy schools. You’re also exceedingly unfamiliar with the Midwest, where graduates of big 10 universities do very well,</p>
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<p>not necessarily true. I know of several people…including a few HS classmates who were recruited by Big 4 from Ivy/elite universities without being accounting majors…or attending colleges offering an accounting major. One was a Chinese lit major from Columbia and has been an accountant for over 15 years, CPA and several years at one of the Big 4 firms included.</p>
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<p>Rutgers is ranked 68</p>
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<p>Then he must have gotten a masters of accounting/MBA or taken accounting classes at another school because Columbia only has 1 accounting class and you need ~24 accounting hours to be CPA eligible in NY.</p>
<p>Also, I said that the Big 4 consulting divisions may recruit at the Ivies/Elites.</p>
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<p>Glad we cleared that up, californiaaa.</p>
<p>My alma Mater (#68) hopefully will be moving up in the USNWR rankings as it moves to The Big Ten, where it belongs academically - the football & basketball teams will struggle to compete in the short term. </p>
<p>New Brunswick & Princeton are light years apart.</p>
<p>“Rutgers is ranked 68” </p>
<p>I guess it’s both-- New Brunswick is #68 and Neward is #115. Sorry to all the Rutgers alum-- I didn’t realize it was referring to the Newark campus. </p>
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<p>At the time of being recruited by the Big-4, she was still at Columbia completing her B.A. in Chinese lit. The MS in Accounting came well after she graduated…and that Big-4 firm fully paid for that degree.</p>
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<p>So was she recruited to the consulting division? Either you are lying or you need to show me how it is possible to work in the Tax/Audit divisions with only one Accounting class ever taken.</p>
<p>cobrat stretches things a little bit…</p>
<p>wow rutgers is 68</p>
<p>OP, there are lots of ivy league degrees in our family, my kid’s father has degrees from Harvard, Yale and Cornell, but why would our experiences indicate what’s right for our children? To answer the Q: our first was outstanding student, writing her own ticket and may end up having med school largely paid for, which is stunning to me. Fast forward to the youngest who has scattershot grades bc her interests are very “pointy” (learned that word in a Swarthmore info session) so strategy will be to look at LACs – not top tier but many excellent schools just under that – that are strong where she excels and really emphasize her strengths. If your student has an academic strength (regardless of performance in other subjects) we’ve found that colleges want a certain number of students like that.
A great idea for girls is to look at single sex schools which offer superb educations but are much easier to get into. Often they are in consortia with other outstanding schools and students can, and do, cross register. So Smith and Holyoke in the Amherst consortium, Bryn Mawr in the tri-co with Swarthmore and Haverford, the Claremont consortium has a range of acceptance %, etc. There are amazing LACs in the midwest that provide educations to rival the name LACs. Honestly we had never heard of Grinnell et al before we started this process. If a student has all B’s not sure these would be viable options, but if you really mean not a straight A student, or a mix of grades then there are really many many colleges where they will thrive and receive a fantastic education.</p>
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<p>That part I’m not sure of. All I know was she was recruited while still an undergrad to the Big-4 firm, hired, they provided training and paid for her M.S. in Accounting & CPA exam, and had her work for some years before she moved on to a boutique accounting firm. </p>
<p>She’s been an accountant now for ~15 years.</p>
<p>Most “masters of the universe” dropped out, attended state schools, or attended schools hardly mentioned on CC.</p>
<p>It is also presumptuous to assume that all Ivy League grads with A students have children who want to attend their alma mater, or even a rival Ivy or similar. I know this phenomenon. My child chose the best fit for him, not for me. It is very painful to let go, much less see your child turn down a school others lust for.</p>
<p>H and I went to Ivy League schools. We both have professional careers have no criminal history, are not drug abusers, BUT don’t believe we can spend $240,000 per kid on a private school (we would not qualify for need based aid) without serious debt. So our kids all went instate public and no problems so far, lots of successes. The average parental income to average Ivy League tuition ratio is ridiculous compared to a generation ago. Most of the kids in my high school were able to attend the best college they got into. My kids and their friends in a high school with similar demographics to mine had to make choices based on affordability.</p>
<p>From what I have seen in our six-degrees-of separation-circles, (our family has the opposite profile: high achieving kids and no money) I see the rich kids who are not brilliant or driven going to nice LAC with beautiful surroundings, wonderful accommodations, and lots of other rich kids. Not bad, what money buys. This is an amazing country.</p>
<p>Thanks, Muffy, that’s our experience as well. Three kids, expected to pay full price. We have interesting, fun jobs but not the type that pay millions of dollars. I always laugh when my alma mater calls me and asks me for a contribution – given that I can’t afford to send my kids there, even if they had the grades.</p>