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In most professions, if you went to a top 30 school, u will be a minority at work. I think the only exception are Mckinsey, Bain and BCG, and front office at Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and the like.
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While that's strictly true, let's face it, those sorts of elite professions are
precisely where the bulk of the students of the top schools end up going. I believe I read in the Wall Street Journal that of those Harvard undergrads who went to the workforce, well over 1/3 went to investment banking or related financial services (i.e. hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, etc.). And that doesn't even count the ones who went to management consulting, which is another giant chunk. Similarly, at MIT, nearly half of the graduating class who entered the workforce took jobs in consulting or finance, which is a simply stunning statistic when you consider that most MIT students are engineering students and hence should not be attracted to consulting/finance. Of those who didn't join consulting/finance, many instead joined highly elite technology companies (i.e. Google) or joined startups that were probably founded and largely staffed by other MIT grads.
http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infost...aduation07.pdf