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Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) |
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Re: AT LAST |
| Date Posted: |
02/13/2001 |
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A POST ABOUT THE VERY CONTROVERSIAL SEO...
I am what you would call a minority student at an Ivy League school and I sincerely believe that SEO is a terrible program that preys on the insecurities and fears of HR at the large banks and consulting firms.
It is a program that is MUCH easier to get into than trying to get an internship the "normal" way, and SEO strongarms the banks and consulting firms to giving many more fulltime offers to their interns.
SEO also receives upwards of $20000 for each intern they "recruit", because they are ostensibly a "talent headhunter."
Though I knew it would be an easier route to get a full time job, I purposely avoided SEO. I believe there is a stigma attached to the program - I believe that most people here realize that the SEO program kids had to jump fewer hoops to get into this program - and have unfairly played the race card in getting their internships.
The program will continue to grow - preying again on the incessant fear that the pitch of large investment banking and consulting firms will not appear PC (I mean, who doesn't want to be an SEO firm? What would be implied by a firm that refuses to be in SEO? Even McKinsey, which for such a long time had no BA intern program, has been a part of SEO.)
I FIRMLY believe the program displaces normal recruiting procedures which is much more discriminating towards finding the best talent - and marginalizes the students who choose to opt for the SEO program, marginalizes SEO itself, and marginalizes those who have obtained these hard internships in more "normal" fashions.
Many many minorities (myself included) have gotten these internships without resorting to this CHEAT program which subsidizes its own program by extorting fees from these banks and consulting firms. |
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I feel sorry that you feel this way. I personally did SEO for 2 consecutive yrs. First at a top-5 IB, then at a top-2 MC firm.
I loved the experience. I KNOW that I could have made it on my first, but chose SEO because the experience was incredible and very beneficial. Hate SEO but please don't say such b.s. about the ppl like myself who have been given the opportunity to experience a great opportunity.
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