<p>Congrats, it sounds like the offers were very deserved!</p>
<p>I’m late to this congratulations party, but I wanted to drop in and add my hearty, “Hurray!” That really is wonderful news, Oldfort, and I’m sure that you’re not only proud as a peacock, but relieved beyond words. I know would be as a parent of a young person seeking a job in this distressing economy. It just goes to show—if you’re talented enough and work hard enough, you’ll surly outshine your peers. Your D’s superior character is reflected in this outcome.</p>
<p>Oh how wonderful! Congrats to you and youngfort!!!</p>
<p>Relieved, that’s the word to best describe my feeling. Sometimes you could do all the right thing and it still doesn’t work out. D1 had a very tough time with her college process. I guess it did all come back to haunt her when she started job search. I was more of a coach to an athlete - yes, you could do it, you are well suited for it, just be yourself, they’ll see what a smart, nice, poise person you are. When she bombed her first interview on Tue morning, my heart dropped. Luckily it was the only one she had that day, and it was a second tier firm (I told her to schedule that one first, hilicopter whir). I had to do a lot of pep talk. She did more research on questions she didn’t know, we practiced some more that evening. On Wed, she had 6 interviews back to back. After each one, she said “I rocked them.” On Wed night she was invited to 4 receptions as result of her interviews and were invited back on Thu for further interviews. Even my H who is in Sales said it must have been tiring/hard to try to sell to that many different customers.</p>
<p>One firm told her today that they had 200 applicants and they accepted 3. They are flying the candidates in to NYC for a weekend of fun. I guess they are doing the courting now.</p>
<p>Thanks again for all the good wishes. I am keeping my fingers crossed for all new graduates, especially CC’ers kids.</p>
<p>Sounds like an extremely intense gauntlet of interviews, there – she sounds very focused, intelligent, and determined. Congrats again to you and your daughter, oldfort!</p>
<p>Having worked in that business…I know how tough these interviews can be. Congrats! A major accomplishment and a great place to brag about it here on CC! All the best.</p>
<p>Congrats to your D and you Oldfort. Glad to hear she is joining the “fat cats!”</p>
<p>congratulations to her!</p>
<p>Congratulations are definitely in order! This isn’t the one with the Australia problem a while back is it? How did that every resolve itself? [off topic]</p>
<p>Brainteasers?? Could you share any of them? Sounds like they would be fun to do if a job wasn’t riding on it.</p>
<p>Yes, this is the Australia problem. Funny you should mention it. D1 filed a formal appeal right before xmas. They said they would get back to her in 11 business days (not 10 or 15). Never heard back from them for 3 weeks. Last week, they emailed her to let her know there was no inappropriate conduct of the professor, but in light of her other grades (A, A A+) at the university, they will remark her final exam, but it may take some time. We are not optimistic, but it’s just strange they are going into all that trouble. It would have been easier for them to just say the grade stands. How long does it take to re-grade a final anyway? I was going to update the other thread once we got a final answer.</p>
<p>Ah I love brainteasers. :X Do share if you can</p>
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<p>It’s the politically easier thing to say, “oh we will look at it again”…and just ask the professor to re-evaluate it. Words are cheap. Though I would hedge my bets that nothing will change. Unless there is some objective error found, it’s pretty difficult to fairly “re-grade” an exam without regrading them all since there is such a degree of relativity to it. And it will take as long as it takes for the prof to get around to it. But hey you never know!</p>