Wharton friendship

aj725
Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:00:57 +0000

Why are you more worried about junior/senior years–is it because of competition for recruiting and jobs?

If so, yes, you are competing for the same pool of jobs. But it doesn’t feel like competition because there isn’t much you can do with regards to other students; all you can do is interview well and make sure that you come off sounding good so that firms want to hire you. And you hope for the best for yourself and friends. Its not like people are sabotaging each other to get jobs. I’m not saying that its a rosy glamorous process because it isn’t–in my class [as with every class i’m sure]–there was some resentment because certain kids with lower gpas got jobs that others with higher gpas didn’t even get second round interviews for, certain students would act like suck-ups at recruiting functions etc. But junior/senior year recruiting isn’t any reason to be that scared of wharton competition.