<p>@Legend: This advice is late, but I’m going ahead anyway. </p>
<p>This is a completely public forum and you are in a very competitive market. You do yourself no favors by discussing the strengths and weaknesses of particular job offers or possibilities publicly. Somebody who might have made you an offer may read that you’re not so sure you’ll take it for this or that reason, that you’re dickering with other possibilities. Maybe they decide that you lack a certain discretion to be entrusted with proprietary information about their clients or business. Maybe they decide you really are only interested in money and are not really focused on helping their company to do well. Maybe one of your competitors for the job sees this forum and speaks to them about how you’re really not sincerely interested.</p>
<p>In short, IMHO you’ve revealed far too much about your private job search here.</p>
<p>A job will pay what it will pay. Wharton may get you an interview, but it will not get you the job. If you interview against a sharp candidate from a public college, and you don’t come across as sharp, they will get the job. Some employers view graduates from prestigious schools as high maintenance, others gobble them up. It all boils down to who you interview with.</p>
<p>That being said, if you have a particular salary in mind, research what jobs may give you that salary. Even in business, accounting will pay the highest salary, so its not necessarily where you studied but what you studied. Other business concentrations won’t pay as well.</p>
<p>Use your college career center! That is where the people that really want the Wharton grads will come. Also, the counselors there will give you some salary data so you aren’t operating in the dark.</p>
<p>Good luck! You are embarking on an exciting time in your life, enjoy! And always remember this, its not what you own, but what you owe. Keep yourself out of debt. Someone making 5 figures can be much wealthier than someone making 6 figures if you adhere to this philosophy.</p>
<p>Super old… if you read other posts, you will find that LOM is settled in with a job in NYC, has a girlfriend, and is looking for his 2nd apartment And trying to decide what to do about his dental bills.</p>
And trying to decide what to do about his dental bills.</p>