The GS Summer Insight Posts Are Killing Me
Title. The decision emails came out today and the absolute flood on my LinkedIn feed is killing me. God these kids make me want to throw myself off a cliff lol.
The program takes like 1k+ of 10k applications yet everyone is posting massive paragraphs about how honored they are and how much they're going to learn.
I did it last year... it was a couple of hours of zoom presentations spread over two months followed by s resume drop. Calm down.
Edit: especially the target kids who also put it as work experience on your LinkedIn. Aren't yall supposed to have more polish than this compared to the nontargets?
Edit2: congrats everyone, WSO posted about this thread lol.
The fact that those posts are getting into your head doesn't make you any better than those kids lol
^Best comment I’ve seen, yeah the linkedin posts are cringe, but who the fuck cares? Ignore it, or unfollow them if they’re constantly posting/liking/sharing stupid shit.
There are people who will change the world and then the ones that tell you how they are changing the world.
yea linked in has turned into a shitshow recently. I think by far the worst I have seen is the high school seniors posting all of their university application screenshots while announcing which uni they will attend SMHHHHH. I didn't even know what LinkedIn was when I was a senior so cringe
YESSSS THISSS I’m like bruh why how insecure are you. The worst I saw was:
“I’m humbled to announce I was accepted into Stanford early admission. I’ve decided I’m not going but I wanted to let you know I got in”
For real???
Yeah I mean it's not a huge time commitment. If you're a freshman just put it on in the background while you work your summer internship. If you're a sophomore just polish your resume for when the drop opens up at the end of the program.
It's an ok resume line item. Works well in your "skills, activities, and interests" section under a bullet point for like "exploratory programs" or "professional development." Don't be one of the kids who puts it as a whole thing under "work experience" on your resume or on LinkedIn lmao.
Edit: doesn't improve your chances, per se, but it does fast-track you to super day if your resume passes screening. Also, GS has an expanded definition of "diversity" (translated: includes Asians), so if you're Asian and you think you're not diverse but still got in, think again. But either way, I saw tons of plain white males in the zooms last summer (no idea if they were diverse in other ways like sexuality). Not selective at all and definitely not diversity exclusive.
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If you think this is annoying, I've been seeing a lot of posts from high schoolers posting about the college they got into and paragraphs thanking their friends and parents. They then change their header to "Incoming Freshman at The Wharton School". What's funnier is that the official accounts of the universities they got into end up posting something like: "Congrats! You deserve it."
Hmmm... that in my book is still better than the GS posts. At least Wharton is competitive and a real achievement. The flex posts where they show every school they applied/received offers from are a bit too much, but imo posting about being accepted as one of 1k+ from 10k is the rock bottom of Gen-Z levels of virtue signaling and desire for approval.
I don't care but I do get amusement out of how every single college kid feels the need to announce their summer internship with a treatise: "I'm pleased to announce that...."
It feels like a new phenomenon.
The worst is when they make a post about it specifically citing how there were "10,000 applicants" and then put it on there LinkedIn as a role and also in the header lmao
I used to be pretty annoyed with these posts as well, but your perspective changes over time. Yes, some of these posts are stupid AF and written very poorly, and some are just frankly ridiculous, but there are some students who don't have that history of "success" in their family or are first-generation or are completely on their own, so I just give people the benefit of the doubt.
I'm doing everything I can to be rich enough so my kids don't have to jerk off these corporations publicly like this. So cringe.
let's use these posts to screen people
This is gold! If a resume ever comes across my desk with this listed as work or extracurricular experience, I’m throwing it into the trash.
Nothing worse than seeing "9 of your connections work here" and it's only because "Summer Insights" is listed under their work experience