Forget everything about HBS guys having MAD SWAGGER.. this guy has to take the cake for the most prestigious academic background of all time. I can't even imagine what it's like for him to walk around wearing yale, Oxford, Cambridge, and HBS swag all at the same time like an absolute boss. It's a mog or get mogged world out there and this guy will be doing so much prestige mogging.
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On a more serious note, I didn't realize that it was possible to be enrolled in master's degree from different schools at the same time. Can anyone provide some color?
I think what's going on is that the super-elite schools aren't attracting the super-elite kids like they used to. Sure, they can still get a great class, but they're used to the best of the best. And the last 5-10 years have offered new alternative routes for the top people. Turning down HBS to do a startup (I personally know a few who did this recently) would've been extremely rare a while back, but now it's the cool thing to do. More banks, funds etc are offering attractive enough offers to keep people from going to school too.
All this, I think, has led the HBS, Yale Law, Stanford type of places to make concessions they didn't use to make.
They've also started admitting much younger classes which I think is for the same reason. They're having trouble attracting someone who is already on a good path, so get them earlier before great alternatives have developed. Easier to get the 23 year old who's only been at McKinsey for a year, than the 26 year old who is in his 2nd year at a PE shop and is all set in terms of good available moves from there.
These schools have all gotten more competitive in the past decade and especially in the past year (last cycle was likely an outlier but doesn’t change the overall point). Maybe a higher percentage of top talent are choosing other opportunities like you are saying, but this is more than counterbalanced by the fact that the overall population size is increasing while classes sizes stay roughly the same.
Any glance at admit rates, GPAs, test scores for top programs, or admissions forums for top MBA and law programs will attest to the fact that these programs are becoming more competitive, not less.
This does not necessarily mean that these schools aren’t losing out on talented individuals that they might have nabbed 5-10 years ago, but I doubt these schools feel the need to make serious concessions to attract students when we just witnessed the most competitive application cycle for business and law in history
And this chick is doing Yale Law and Standford MBA at the same time, wow. Not quite as prestigious, I have to admit, but I'd still wife her.
wait how on earth is this possible
is there a satellite stanford campus in new haven or something
a lot of joint programs just split up the years, two years there, two years here, etc.
He's a wannabe politician, bullshitting degree collector. I'm sure he'll make a fantastic state senator some day.
+1 SB. I would revoke his MBA as he apparently doesn't understand the law of diminishing marginal returns. The value of your first graduate elite degree = huge. The value of your second and third degree....not so great.
I've seen some transparent prestige whoring before but this is pretty damn impressive. That academic pedigree is just so unbelievably difficult to come by.
And add in a McKinsey internship for good measure.
I guess these schools just salivate over anyone who's worked for a federal Democratic campaign
Almost no reason to get a JD if you're not interested in being a lawyer or law professor.
Actually curious, I have thought of doing a JD / MBA in the future but was told if I am staying in finance there isn't really a point besides having a fancy degree. All the law work just gets done by law firms on the deal. Can anyone speak to the value of a JD / MBA in finance?
Really very little value - at least not worth the effort/money/time
Bruce Wasserstein
Alma mater
University of Michigan Harvard Business School Harvard Law School
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Wasserstein
"Starting his career as a Cravath, Swaine & Moore attorney, Wasserstein moved to First Boston Corp. in 1977 and eventually rose to co-head of their then-dominant merger and acquisition practice.7 In 1988, with colleague Joseph Perella, he left First Boston to form investment bank boutique Wasserstein Perella & Co.,8 which he sold in 2000, at the top of the late 1990s bull market, to Germany's Dresdner Bank for around $1.4 billion in stock.9 In 2002, he left the unit Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (formed by merging Dresdner's United Kingdom unit Kleinwort Benson with Wasserstein Perella) to become head of Lazard.10 In 2005, he led the initial public offering of Lazard and became the public firm's first Chairman and CEO.11
Wasserstein controlled Wasserstein & Co., a private equity firm with investments in a number of industries, particularly media. In 2004, he added New York Magazine to his media empire. In July 2007, he sold American Lawyer Media to Incisive Media for about $630 million in cash.12 He was credited with the term "Pac-Man defense", which is used by targeted companies during a hostile takeover attempt."
Cool story bro...because one guy is all it takes. Mitt Romney is another example.
But for every Wasserstein or Romney, there are probably a dozen that have a single graduate degree, including from non-Ivyies or from no where at all. Ken Griffin, Jon Gray, and David Solomon come to mind.
Do you have a letter drafted to them made of cut out magazine letters?
I need PrestigeCaller to rank Yale Law, Oxford, Cambridge and HBS
Oxford. All my friends from Oxford are classy AF. Meanwhile I have a Midwest accent and probably sound like the Lincoln Lawyer to them.
Edit: I did not go to Oxford myself.
I think his parents are disappointed he didn't get admitted to Princeton for his undergrad.
Kids like this probably got a lot of spankings and went to church every everyday.
All those fancy degrees will impress his future boss, a guy who remembers his two years at Arizona State as the best time of his life.
There comes a point where credentials begins to work against you. This dude is long past that point.
He should get an MD while he's at it...
Lot of jealousy and insecurity in this thread. There's a very clear reason for why he's gone down this path. In fact, it's quite common among the prep school crowd. Do you think he cares about opportunity cost? Dig deeper...(he's probably laughing at this thread.)
I get you need education, and the more elite, the better. But what is this kid possibly gonna do with his degrees? Investment Banker by day and lawyer by night? And don't tell me the advantages of having both. It's more efficient to hire a law firm to close deals IMO.
Seriously. Who cares? What's the point of shooting them down? This site is a constant dick measuring contest but people are shitting on them for getting degrees they wish they had. That's not to say that degrees convey some genius on their part, but c'mon. Good for him. Good for the girl going to YLS and Stanford at the same time. Their profiles read like they're interested in policy and will probably end up at major international institutions, not gunning for your IBD Associate class.
Its true I would want their degrees, but I wouldn't put in the effort/resources because I don't see the value (aside from not having the sheer intellect required haha). Maybe that's why I'm coming of as aggressive.
No doubt they'll be successful, but I doubt they'll be more successful than anyone else. But to each their own.
Kids these days... Brady4MVP put all of you to shame and its not even close. RIP Brady
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