Sounds like a guy that’s just got bit in the ass by a cost-benefit analysis. He’s hoping he didn’t spend $100K on his bachelor’s degree when he could’ve gotten the same thing for $20K elsewhere.
Employers like people that understand cost-benefit. In bachelor’s degrees, cost matters.
SnakeDoc
Actually, We Yale Grads Really Are Better Than Other People
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THIS is why I am damn tired of Ivy leaguers running out country.
Only a fool would vote for any of them .
Absolutely. I see a Yale degree on a resume and it signals a whole host of future problems with an attitude of entitlement, salary expectations, and very probably Socialist political views. The Yale degree is thus a valuable signal that I should look elsewhere. :)
Prostitutes have lots of connections, too.
Really? From the Yale Admissions website:
The total Cost of Attendance for attending Yale in 2012-2013 is $58,600, which includes tuition ($42,300), room ($7,150), board ($5,850), and books and personal expenses ($3,300).
That's just short of sixty grand worth of "nonexistent". I'm guessing the author of the letter isn't majoring in Business. Or Economics. Or Mathematics, or Engineering, or any other field where hiring a complete fool might be dangerous.
this sense of entitlement will make for a very long, disappointing life
Another perpetual adolescent. A self centered sophomore, in the classic sense.
Can't distinguish opinion from reality.
Some Yale grads are better than most other people. But the same can be said of many other grads from institutions noteworthy and modest.
The standard of that judgment is how others view you. One of the universal yardsticks of a "better" person is modesty, and by that measure the good human being always stands out, and the loudmouths fail.
But we live in a society of contradictions and illusion.
Members of Congress and bureaucrats feel the same way. Until hubris sets in. Then many become prison fodder, or mental institution residents, alcoholics, druggists or all three.
College tuition bubble is gonna burst. The “big” schools aren’t worth the money and people are catching on.
Well, Yale has 18 Nobel laureates among its alum.
That sounds impressive until you consider that City College of New York has 9. It’s not where you took calculus 101—it’s what you do with that knowledge.
I would take all this with a grain of salt. Almost everything Friedman has ever written turned out to be nonsense.
Which is a better indicator of value? Four years at Yale or four years in the Marines? Four years at State U or four years in the Navy maintaining a nuclear cruiser?
Both side address a known truth; it is not whether you can do the job, it is whether you can get the job.
Just maybe by going to Yale you can get that job.
My sister worked for a consulting firm years ago that I won’t name (McKinsey & Co.) and everyone hated the July hires. Policy at that time was to hire ONLY Ivy League graduates. She said they were all dumb as a bag of hammers, practical as tits on a mule and arrogant elitist snobs.
BUT they all played a mean game of squash.
No mention that many corporations now have a blanket prohibition against hiring any Ivy League graduates at all.
The reasons for this is that Ivy Leaguers are seen as being disloyal to their employer, interested only in self promotion, bringing in classmates, advancing as high as they can, then jumping ship to another employer. And they don’t care if their short term decisions end up costing their employer millions of dollars to fix after they are gone.
Other employers see them as “ethically handicapped”, so should never be entrusted with anything of value.
Friedman plumping his daughter’s friend’s startup without disclosure or mention of firms already in the space.
Bhwawawawawawawawawa!
Funny how you see yourself is usually far different from the way others see you.