Should I turn down Oxford for UChicago?

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@hyeonjlee

However, I heard this from a couple of old friends/colleagues who have family members at the WS firms. As such, I can’t say it with an authority of someone with a first hand insight into the whole matter.

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<p>In other words, you haven’t worked a day in your life on Wall Street. But that hasn’t stopped you from consistently giving (bad) “advice” re: WS to prospective students anyway. Such as the following:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064961300-post3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064961300-post3.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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@hyeonjlee

On a more practical level, it also depends on what you want to do in life. If you want to join the elite Wall Street firm right out of college, then you need to understand that Chicago and other few top private elite school degrees absolutely make a difference vis a vis state schools.

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<p>The “state school” in question (and at which you were thumbing your nose down) is UVa, which by all accounts is recruited as if not more heavily than Chicago for WS jobs. The prospective student in question is a Virginia resident, so s/he’d be spending approximately $100K more (over four years) for a Chicago vs. UVa education. S/he specifically stated that s/he was looking for “honest advice.” But you gave her mostly ill-informed (not to mention self-serving) “advice.”</p>

<p>You’re acting as if Chicago were Harvard/Wharton/Princeton/Stanford or something when it comes to WS.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064961300-post3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064961300-post3.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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@hyeonjlee

Wall Street is shamelessly elitist and diploma bigots.

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<p>Sheer irony!</p>