Non-Target - The New Prestige

I'm the only non-target in a "prestigious" group on the street and let me tell you by the way these kids try to talk to girls, they're the closest thing to a sex offender I've ever seen - and they all made it to the street pretty easily, so this doesn't work.

Grateful I went to a school where I learned how to talk to the opposite gender and still ended up in the same place; now THAT'S a valuable education

you cope, you're the one who tried hard earlier in life while we had fun and ended up in the same situation lmao

Is this a joke? I am a current MS analyst who went to a complete non-target. I know of quite a few others in the bank as well

or we just dont care about paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for the same lame education

Kinda right. Generally non target kids aren't as smart as top tier targets (otherwise they would've gotten in) but they have an insane level of drive which more than makes up for it.

Disagree. Know some kids who didn't have a good upbringing and guidance - doens't help that they literally only found out about IB in Uni and had no connections/money

Whereas at the ivys I've had friends who were literally guided into IBD/PE/HF by their parents - one kid "shadowed" an BB IBD analyst for a month at the age of 16 and another was the daughter of a politician who was good friends with a few MDs 

I received a 35 ACT, a perfect SAT, and a 4.8/4.0 GPA.

I got into every school I applied to excluding Princeton, Northwestern, and Johns Hopkins. I do not come from wealth, and I could not afford those options - even with the highest scholarships they offered - so I now attend a nontarget because I received a full ride.

I am not the type to judge someone for their privilege, but the complete lack of awareness kids like you have is just pathetic. That, and your arrogance.

You feel the need to conflate wealth with intelligence because if you faced the facts and acknowledged you inherited success, it would destroy your self-esteem.

You think you earned your life, don't you?

You were born into it.

Life is not fair, and I accept that, I just find it irritating that so many kids born into fortunate circumstances fail to acknowledge their luck, then use the denial of luck to justify their exaggerated sense of achievement and self-worth.

Because practically everyone here is 19

Actually, the non targets tend to be more competent in IB because many of them have taken finance and accounting classes as well as have the proper skill sets needed. There is no correlation of a target grad being a stronger performer. This is just lazy recruiting. I am not saying target grads are idiots but many of them are not properly screened to see if they are right for IB.

Also there has been an increase in non targets in the last 10 years. The real problem is that many non target schools do not have enough students interested in IB. I am sure you can find plenty of interesting talent at Montana State, but how many students want to go from wide open spaces to a tiny apartment in Murray Hill working 80 hours a week? If a grad from Montana State wants to be a banker, they just go to Denver/Boulder or work in Oil and Gas. There is technology that can reach out to students from other schools. I am not saying there is not still an elitism factor, but it is a lot more complex than that.