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NYU for IB |
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still can't touch me... |
| Date Posted: |
05/22/2000 |
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Well put. To add to that -- alma mater is a rather reliable indicator of past achievement (especially in high school) and therefore a modestly useful indicator of broad-based ability and intelligence. It's completely disingenuous to claim (as too often done by state schoolers) that performance in college and beyond has NO relationship to past performance. A liberal arts major at an Ivy ALREADY proved his or her ability in high school to do those Advanced Placement math, science, english, what have you, at an EXCEPTIONAL level, while at the same time participating in ten extracurriculars and a varsity sport. He has already shown that that he can excel, and in college the decision of a major then becomes based more on interests than on calculated career positioning. Of course there are exceptions to everything I said (and those who don't fit this generalization will discredit me immediately), but I think it's fairly accurate. And fair. |
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That ain't shit!!! Try working full-time in operations management at ups (40+ hrs. a week), while going to school full-time. While you stiffs were drinking beers in the dorm, I was honing my analytical skills and learning valuable management skills that complimented my coursework. I'm in a Corp Fin. analyst program with a leading pharmaceutical co. and I'm the man (no BS). There are plenty of ivy league jerkoffs in my class and to say that I am kicking their asses would be a gross understatement. What it all boils down to is this: I'm smarter than you, and have a superior work ethic. There is no real correlation between passed performance and futuree abilities. All you have to do is be humble enough to learn what the gaps are in your skill set, and be hungry enough to fill them! Those trates are innate, and can not be taught anywhere. Like my self, many of us state schoolers hit our strides in college and kick major ass afterwards...including yours. If you get in a top mba program, you will see for yourself. Lastly, majoring in marketing & finance wasn't a "caluculated career decision" like you assume. I chose it because I am passionate about business and strategy. I can, and have spent mny hours talking about it with similarly impassioned "state schoolers". You're lucky for now that BB'S didn't recruit at my school because ALL of you stiffs would be begging me for fan club applications! I'm going to roll over you all like a freight train when I get to "The Street"!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ALL WILL LEARN THAT YOU CAN'T SLEEP ON ANYONE, REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY'RE FROM!
WAITING...
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