Ivy League Graduates Should Resist The Lure Of Banks And Consulting Firms

Each fall, our country’s top-tier banks and consulting firms cram New Haven’s best hotels with the best and brightest to lure them with a series of superlatives: the greatest job, the most money, the easiest application, the fanciest popcorn. They’re good at it. They’re unbelievably, remarkably, terrifyingly good at it. Every year around 25 percent of employed Yale graduates enter the consulting and finance industries. At Harvard and Stanford, the numbers are even higher. I’m just not convinced that the most productive use of 25 percent of my graduating class’s time is to spend two or three years pushing figures around spreadsheets to make more money for those with the most money. Read more at:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/another-view-the-science-and-strategy-of-college-recruiting/?WT.mc_id=DB-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M227b-ROS-1111-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_c=173518