OT: If This Was A Football Commitment Video (LOL)

[Tad Footeball]

....they'd have left out the part where this kid strangely signs with Arkansas instead 18 hrs later and just sends out a simple tweet of "#GottaFeedDaFamily".

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[TheUBack]

Good for that kid.

I might be biased but I don't think HYPS is that big a deal. If you're smart and apply yourself you can get a degree from any top 50 school and be just as well situated. Perhaps more so if you can graduate debt free.

I know many people who went to ivies. Not all of them are doing that well or are that brilliant. No doubt the 8 ivies + Stanford and MIT will help you get interviews. But it's not like this kid is set for life, at all.

 

[jackbenimble71]

Cool story. Gotta meet those quotas. Once you get in it’s rare you will get bad grades no matter what. They are trying to keep up the prestige. Miami, Stanford, ga tech, all better academic schools in my opinion. Ivey’s Are overrated

 

[TheUBack]

Cool story. Gotta meet those quotas. Once you get in it’s rare you will get bad grades no matter what. They are trying to keep up the prestige. Miami, Stanford, ga tech, all better academic schools in my opinion. Ivey’s Are overrated

I would never guess that someone's admission is a reflection of anything other than academic potential. This kid is probably a very bright young man. But that's the thing though. POTENTIAL means you still ain't done sht.

No doubt the Ivies offer a great education. But passing his series 7 and 63 or MCAT or Bar Exam will be a FAR bigger accomplishment.

I'm not hating. Hope the young man does well. But people have this notion that Ivy acceptance is the equivalent of a Powerball win, when I know for a fact that you still have to put in the work. I know a Brown grad that is getting his house foreclosed on. It's a springboard, but you still gotta do it.

A GTech 4.0 Computer Science major also has the POTENTIAL to earn serious coin.

 

[TheRichtShow]

Good for that kid.

I might be biased but I don't think HYPS is that big a deal. If you're smart and apply yourself you can get a degree from any top 50 school and be just as well situated. Perhaps more so if you can graduate debt free.

I know many people who went to ivies. Not all of them are doing that well or are that brilliant. No doubt the 8 ivies + Stanford and MIT will help you get interviews. But it's not like this kid is set for life, at all.

One of the cool things about HYS and some other schools is that if your family income is below a certain amount (like $125k or $150k), you get a full scholarship.

So for kids who don't come from much, they graduate debt free just by attending

 

[orange&green84]

Cool story. Gotta meet those quotas. Once you get in it’s rare you will get bad grades no matter what. They are trying to keep up the prestige. Miami, Stanford, ga tech, all better academic schools in my opinion. Ivey’s Are overrated

I would never guess that someone's admission is a reflection of anything other than academic potential. This kid is probably a very bright young man. But that's the thing though. POTENTIAL means you still ain't done sht.

No doubt the Ivies offer a great education. But passing his series 7 and 63 or MCAT or Bar Exam will be a FAR bigger accomplishment.

I'm not hating. Hope the young man does well. But people have this notion that Ivy acceptance is the equivalent of a Powerball win, when I know for a fact that you still have to put in the work. I know a Brown grad that is getting his house foreclosed on. It's a springboard, but you still gotta do it.

A GTech 4.0 Computer Science major also has the POTENTIAL to earn serious coin.

A colleague of mine that worked at the same internship as I did got a job at the same company mine as a Software Development Engineer (CS Major for both grad and undergrad). Suffice it to say, even though I'm doing pretty good for myself, I feel like a complete failure when I look at his salary that's near $200k.

 

[ben]

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[Tad Footeball]

Good for that kid.

I might be biased but I don't think HYPS is that big a deal. If you're smart and apply yourself you can get a degree from any top 50 school and be just as well situated. Perhaps more so if you can graduate debt free.

I know many people who went to ivies. Not all of them are doing that well or are that brilliant. No doubt the 8 ivies + Stanford and MIT will help you get interviews. But it's not like this kid is set for life, at all.

Spot on but good luck selling that to most teenagers with the ability to get into "elite" schools. Grad school value is even debatable now but I remember a high school teacher I had that used to rant about it being more important where your advanced degree came from than the name on your undergraduate diploma. We (of course) derided the guy as a jealous hater that must've only been able to get into State U.

 

[Canesfan101]

Look at the average salary of a Harvard grad vs an Arkansas grad. Harvard $143,000, Arkansas $59,000. This is an easy choice. Very small chance this kid ever makes a dime playing football, go to Harvard kid!

 

[ben]

Look at the average salary of a Harvard grad vs an Arkansas grad. Harvard $143,000, Arkansas $59,000. This is an easy choice. Very small chance this kid ever makes a dime playing football, go to Harvard kid!

although if you have the resume to get into Harvard, Arkansas will PAY YOU to attend...

 

[Lokest]

But is he 1000% committed is the real question


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[DTP]

Look at the average salary of a Harvard grad vs an Arkansas grad. Harvard $143,000, Arkansas $59,000. This is an easy choice. Very small chance this kid ever makes a dime playing football, go to Harvard kid!

These numbers are also quite misleading. I'd be willing to say a large percentage of Ivy grads come from wealthy backgrounds with more connections to higher paying jobs than the average State U grad does. Sometimes who you know is more important than what you know.

 

[Oicu812]

But is he 1000% committed is the real question


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And make sure he re-affirms,.. Then you know its a lock!!

 

[TheUBack]

Look at the average salary of a Harvard grad vs an Arkansas grad. Harvard $143,000, Arkansas $59,000. This is an easy choice. Very small chance this kid ever makes a dime playing football, go to Harvard kid!

These numbers are also quite misleading. I'd be willing to say a large percentage of Ivy grads come from wealthy backgrounds with more connections to higher paying jobs than the average State U grad does. Sometimes who you know is more important than what you know.

In addition cost of living differences are REAL. If you're making 80k in NYC Boston or the Bay you're not "poor" but it's definitely not rich. You can live like a boss on 60k in Mississippi or rural Arkansas I'd also guess that Arkansas is far more traditional. Many more female Arky grads are likely making $0 per year as a choice to be with children. Probably not the case for Harvard.

There's also many ways to get by in life. I worked at Goldman Sachs for a while as well as for high AUM buyside shops in Manhattan. I hated my life. I put on 40 pounds and was deeply depressed despite being "successful." I was paying 2850 a month for a studio apartment in kind of a sketch neighborhood in lower Manhattan. 4 floors above me a Moelis associate jumped to his death. In January I'm going to go to SW FL and work on a golf course or bartend or teach school while continuing to trade my own book. The brass ring can also be a piece of sht

 

[LustNCanes]

Look at the average salary of a Harvard grad vs an Arkansas grad. Harvard $143,000, Arkansas $59,000. This is an easy choice. Very small chance this kid ever makes a dime playing football, go to Harvard kid!

These numbers are also quite misleading. I'd be willing to say a large percentage of Ivy grads come from wealthy backgrounds with more connections to higher paying jobs than the average State U grad does. Sometimes who you know is more important than what you know.

In addition cost of living differences are REAL. If you're making 80k in NYC Boston or the Bay you're not "poor" but it's definitely not rich. You can live like a boss on 60k in Mississippi or rural Arkansas I'd also guess that Arkansas is far more traditional. Many more female Arky grads are likely making $0 per year as a choice to be with children. Probably not the case for Harvard.

There's also many ways to get by in life. I worked at Goldman Sachs for a while as well as for high AUM buyside shops in Manhattan. I hated my life. I put on 40 pounds and was deeply depressed despite being "successful." I was paying 2850 a month for a studio apartment in kind of a sketch neighborhood in lower Manhattan. 4 floors above me a Moelis associate jumped to his death. In January I'm going to go to SW FL and work on a golf course or bartend or teach school while continuing to trade my own book. The brass ring can also be a piece of sht

WOW, thanks for sharing. You put that into perspective, I guess I've been taking advantage of my lifestyle for granted. Thank You...

 

[TheUBack]

Look at the average salary of a Harvard grad vs an Arkansas grad. Harvard $143,000, Arkansas $59,000. This is an easy choice. Very small chance this kid ever makes a dime playing football, go to Harvard kid!

These numbers are also quite misleading. I'd be willing to say a large percentage of Ivy grads come from wealthy backgrounds with more connections to higher paying jobs than the average State U grad does. Sometimes who you know is more important than what you know.

In addition cost of living differences are REAL. If you're making 80k in NYC Boston or the Bay you're not "poor" but it's definitely not rich. You can live like a boss on 60k in Mississippi or rural Arkansas I'd also guess that Arkansas is far more traditional. Many more female Arky grads are likely making $0 per year as a choice to be with children. Probably not the case for Harvard.

There's also many ways to get by in life. I worked at Goldman Sachs for a while as well as for high AUM buyside shops in Manhattan. I hated my life. I put on 40 pounds and was deeply depressed despite being "successful." I was paying 2850 a month for a studio apartment in kind of a sketch neighborhood in lower Manhattan. 4 floors above me a Moelis associate jumped to his death. In January I'm going to go to SW FL and work on a golf course or bartend or teach school while continuing to trade my own book. The brass ring can also be a piece of sht

WOW, thanks for sharing. You put that into perspective, I guess I've been taking advantage of my lifestyle for granted. Thank You...

Kind of you, but I still feel extremely blessed. I don't want anyone's pity and I certainly am not deserving of it, especially when a global scale is considered. My sister is actually still on the rates desk of one of these sellside hellholes. She also is unhappy, having difficult relationships, not sleeping well, persistent headaches etc. All for the hope of a 40k bonus. But after the tax man takes half and you have a very expensive lifestyle that isn't fulfilling, it doesn't seem worth it.

All that was to make the point that while it's a great accomplishment that this young man has been accepted to Harvard University, the celebration might be extremely premature. He might not know what's beyond the door when he signs up for OCR with GS, BAML, Nomura, McKinsey etc.

Funny enough, the highest net worth person I know went to SUNY Albany...

 

[TheUBack]

When this kid is taking a 5:27 AM train to go to a sterile office and get verbally sodomized by a ****head VP in London over teleconference about a desk PnL rec macro (that is correct by the way) he worked on until 1 the prior morning, I hope the happy memories of the acceptance to a "target" school are still there

 

[deleted1998]

Can he play QB?

 

[deleted1998]

When this kid is taking a 5:27 AM train to go to a sterile office and get verbally sodomized by a ****head VP in London over teleconference about a desk PnL rec macro (that is correct by the way) he worked on until 1 the prior morning, I hope the happy memories of the acceptance to a "target" school are still there

Stop hating lol. Good gosh.

 

[umcane4life]

Cool story. Gotta meet those quotas. Once you get in it’s rare you will get bad grades no matter what. They are trying to keep up the prestige. Miami, Stanford, ga tech, all better academic schools in my opinion. Ivey’s Are overrated

No need to down vote him. He is correct on the grades at Ivy league schools. The hardest part of these schools is getting in. Several family members attend or have attended IVY league schools. All of them say the hardest part is getting in.