Any of these jobs requires people to be smart. This is about the angels dancing on pins: where do the best of the best end up? Rhodes scholars get heavily recruited by McKinsey for example (ask Pete Buttigieg). And my experience (at a tippy top college) was that in general the smartest people I knew went into consulting, other top students went into law, and the good but not amazing students ended up in IB. There were always exceptions but that has rung true in my work with people in those professions over the last 30 years. Having said that, the fellow students who went into IB were all retired by the age of 50 so they must have done OK financially.
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