Dartmouth famous major>?

SpringForever
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:32:30 +0000

“If “grad school at MIT is plan B for a lot of top engineering undergrads,” then undergraduate school at Dartmouth is plan D for a lot of top high school students.” I totally agree. Like all schools with the exception of Harvard and Stanford, Dartmouth isn’t the plan A for the majority of its matriculating students; it may be plan D for a lot of students. However, many of those students end up loving the school and wouldn’t transfer out to Harvard/Stanford even if they could.

“You sound condescending.” The truth doesn’t always sound sweet.

“Business and grad school are not mutually exclusive. Many people who run hedge funds, private equity and venture capital firms have PhDs and/or MBAs from Harvard/Stanford/MIT et al. Almost all of the quants who write the algorithms that the traders use have PhDs in math/physics/engineering, etc.” When have I ever said business and grad school is mutually exclusive? I said a lot of top engineering undergrads prefer going straight into business over going to engineering grad school. In fact, a lot of positions in S&T prefer people with math, science, and engineering backgrounds. JDs frequently join M&A teams. However, many top engineering undergrads prefer going straight into business after undergrad and then pursue a MBA instead of going to engineering grad school at MIT and pursue careers in engineering. Of the top engineering undergrads I know, more ended up at Sloan than at engineering at MIT.