<p>Just as a fun opinionated thread, I thought it would be interesting to see you thoughts on which of the following people are the most impressive, at least on paper. You can make the usualy assumptions that they have all been accepted into FO roles at their respective companies and you can expect them to continue the upward trajectory in their career. You can assume that they have similar socio-economic backgrounds and race/gender/religion is the same for everyone.</p>
<p>1) BSE IOE/MS IOE EGL student who has accepted an offer to work at BCG</p>
<p>2) BSE Biomedical Engineering/MS Biomedical Engineering EGL student who has been admitted to Stanford Medical School</p>
<p>3) Ross BBA Finance & Strategy student who has accepted an offer at Goldman Sachs to work as an investment banking analyst</p>
<p>4) LSA Econ student who has completed his PhD in Economics at UM and is now about to tenure as an assistant professor at MIT</p>
<p>5) LSA Econ & Math student who will be working at BlackRock as a private equity analyst</p>
<p>6) BSE EECS student who has founded a fast rising startup like Seelio</p>
<p>7) BSE IOE student who has been accepted into HBS 2+2 program (he/she is not really sure what they want to do with their life)</p>
<p>8) LSA Political Science & Economics student who has been accepted into UM Law School</p>
<p>9) BSE IOE/Ross MSCM student who is joining AT Kearney as a Business Analyst</p>
<p>10) BSE EECS/MS EECS SGUS student who will be joining Google as computer engineer</p>
<p>Remember, these poeple are all hypothetical students and any resemblance to anyone living or dead is purely coincidental.</p>
<p>Harvard 2+2 is very impressive, much harder to get in than regular HBS, which is already one of the hardests things to get into.</p>
<p>Then obviously high finance. Hedge funds would go higher than both on your list. Also, BlackRock isn’t exactly known for private equity. I assume you mean private equity at blackstone or equity research (PM track) at blackrock, either way it’s definitely second.</p>
<p>Then your regular IBD, whatever.</p>
<p>Then MBB for sure.</p>
<p>Then Silicon Valley, while they are also quite elitist, they are less elitist than high finance and strat consulting. There are your ocassional san jose state grad at google.</p>
<p>Then academia… those who cant do, teach. but tenure at MIT is still pretty baller.</p>
<p>Then just the regular good grad schools, ok companies whatever not going to expand on that.</p>
<p>6 would have been higher if it’s not Seelio. Seelio is such a sleezy company. One of their main dudes (bald guy) wasted 30 minutes of my time trying to sell me their product the UM engineering career fair when I was recruiting for my old company, even as I continuously hinted that I am not interested and he’s wasting my time. Pretty unprofessional.</p>
<p>“they contribute nothing to society”
I am not sure about you, but I have no interest reading through the legal jargon in the term sheets with our counterparties. I also like to get the legal interpretation on more special debt deals (weird call schedules, pay in kind, whatever), especially as it relates to the covenants. So I value legal very much, and they definitely contribute.</p>
<p>Thats interesting bearcats, but I would put 9 above 6, 10 and 8.
Whilst, AT Kearney is no MBB it still a top top consulting company with great exit opps and good assignments in supply chain and sourcing.</p>
<p>^No. But my life would suck without legal. Plus they cover our ass. More often than not I ask legal something not because I want to ask legal something, but to ask legal something so if something screws up, I can say well I asked legal and they said ok. I wouldn’t want to be them, but life would suck without them is what I am saying.</p>
<p>There is no doubt that private equity and hedge funds are as golden as you can get for a job riight out of college.</p>
<p>WHilst, HBS 2+2 is impressive, I think stanford medical school is also REALLY REALLY impressive and one of the hardest places to get accepted into (med schools are notorious for being very selective anyway). Anyway, someone working at Goldman Sachs IBD or BCG has a high chance of getting accepted into HBS regular admissions since they have a very strong work experience background so i think that is better than HBS 2+2</p>
<p>The rest I agree with but AT kearney is probably more impressive than UM Law School, Google and Seelio</p>
<p>if you are only getting a million in funding, you probably cant even pay yourself a respectable wage.
In addition, the idea is dumb. It’s basically linkedin with pictures. It doesnt project professionalism.</p>
<p>Startups are high risk high reward vetnures, they can turn out very well like Seelio, facebook or google but here are millions of startups that have flopped.
Many young entrepreneurs have gone on to become very successful and good startups are really attractive to business schools and potential employers (I know that HBS 2+2 takes a lot of young entreprenuers) but if you fail in your startup, then it can be very difficult to recover and start a new business or find a ‘normal’ job</p>
<p>I have to say I agree with HoCaulfield, it doesn’t get better than stanford medical school if you want to pursue a medical field.</p>
<p>If you read some of my earlier threads vladenschlutte, you can probably figure out I am similar to one of these people that I have described (although they are all hypothetical) but I do not have the job offer described in the OP yet as I have not started my master’s program yet.</p>