College selection help for my daughter

BKSquared
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 01:29:24 +0000

Could work, but she would have to attend summer classes at least 2 years and have a pretty full load each semester with very little room for other electives. It would be a grind. My personal opinion is college is a great time for young adults to explore a variety of intellectual interests and to learn a little bit about life. I’ll also admit I am not a big fan of an undergrad business degree. In my prior career I was a senior banker at a bulge bracket IB and was heavily involved with hiring and recruiting. I favored hiring analysts and associates with engineering, other STEM and even liberal arts undergrad backgrounds over undergrad bschool applicants (of course we hired mostly MBA’s into the associate program or people with relevant financial work experience). Their ability to perform depended on solving qualitative problems and applying critical thinking. This was my personal preference, but I’ll also say, I wasn’t the only one. I am sure there are very successful people who take a contrary view of undergrad bschool from mine, but I think bschool funnels a student into a narrower set of skills rather than open a wide variety of doors. JMO.