Dartmouth Tuck Bridge Program, and other similar programs are just expensive daycare for rich kids

Does anyone else get the feeling that these programs have just become a way for rich kids to boost their resume without being able to land an internship prior to Junior Summer? All the kids that go to my school that have attended these programs are absolute bricks but all still manage to land legit FO jobs.

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I don't know about it now, but I completed it almost 8 years ago and I think it was a great learning experience for me given that (1) I was an engineering major in undergrad and so had zero academic business know how, and (2) I come from an emerging economy and so it was a great international exposure experience.

Didn't help me recruit though and where I come from only Harvard/Oxbridge/Princeton/Georgetown etc are famous, so Tuck didn't carry much weight.

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