I def agree.. Pitt couldve just rolled out 8 students that are overachieving and have great jobs/opps lined up...this can be done at any school.. However, as discussed before, these students did not seem like anything special... Likely, they had decent grades but they also werent involved in anything unique... such as cert programs, dual degrees, externships, etc... They were prob just a bunch of students that volunteered for one reason or the other...jack duluoz wrote:I agree that it was disheartening. However, i think it is easy to forget we are in the midst of the worst recession since the depression, and i'm not sure if the current situation is really representative of anything we'll be experiencing 5+ years into our careers. Right now all schools outside of the T14 seem to be hurting--even then i would imagine the bottom half of all classes outside of HYS are unemployed OR the T14 name gets them something, but then most of those kids probably received little to no scholarships and are staring at a huge pile of debt and pretty much needed biglaw. I think we need to be cautious of our debt and things will work itself out. I guess you also need to weigh your opportunity costs. As a poli sci major, i can take a shot at LS and come out unemployed or just definitely be unemployed right now. lol.keg411 wrote:All that said -- none of the 3L's nor the 2L on the panel had anything lined up at all. Only the 1L's had jobs (and not even all of them). This worried me. I mean, maybe they weren't the top students (which is definitely possible), but they all seemed extremely frustrated. It was pretty dishartening after a great ASD (I mean, even the DePaul kids had stuff lined up). But for me, my scholarship isn't enough and I can't get in-state. If Pitt were my state school, I'd have a much stronger likelikhood of going there.
Also (i'm not sure why they didnt) but Pitt could have found three 1Ls, two 2Ls, and two 3Ls that all had something lined up. It's hard to say what's really going on with employment without polling everyone in attendance, let alone making a cross school comparison.
lol, just felt like typing. not my complete thoughts on the situations, but i like to think i made at least one good point.
Lol... in reality, you cannot judge the job prospects of an entire school (600+ students) based on a sample size of 8 seemingly random students...
The same logic works both ways as well.. The 3L I spoke with in the morning and my tour guide both had very interesting prospects lined up (extern in DC and job at mid-large firm)... However, it would be ignorant of me to assume EVERY student is doing the same as these 2 students...
. Even with the small scholarship offer the OOS price was just too much for me. I liked Pitt a lot too. Good luck to everyone who is attending!
