http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/649281/posts, Discussion –how many elite school grads are in those unemployed statistics? If I had pursued sociology or art history instead, I would probably have a very different perspective. I don’t have a graduate degree myself, so I can’t attest to the difficulty of getting one. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/19/cornell-grads-find-fewer-_n_542476.html, “Underemployment hits double digits for schools listed below ninth-ranked University of California, Berkeley.” If you attend a grade-inflated college, this means that this college tends to hand out high grades to a lot of their students and that a plurality (or even a majority) of students are consistently making A’s or B’s in all of their classes. It seems like PhD programs often get a bad rap (I remember reading a tongue-in-cheek article on the lifestyle of PhD students entitled “So You’ve Chosen to Ruin Your Life”), but I don’t know how dependent it is on the specific school attended. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. Then again, I don’t think Duke is as famous for grade inflation as many of the Ivies are, so the challenge probably varies quite a lot from place to place as well as from program to program. After receiving a submission from someone saying he had never met an unemployed Ivy Leaguer, I felt compelled to find more stories of graduates of elite universities who can’t find work. Report accessibility issues and get help, “Why It Pays to Save: Knowing the Time Value of Money”, “Venezuela’s Eugenia Carmona on the ‘Complete Chaos’ Afflicting Her Country”, “The Fed Revealed: The Dangers of Monetary Policy”, “Jeremy Siegel: Why Investors Shouldn’t Panic Over Stock Market Volatility”, “Inflation: What It Is, Where It Comes From and How It Can Bite You”, “GDP: The Rock Star of Economic Indicators”, Computation, II. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57359795/a-new-stanford-grad-on-food-stamps/, Yale grad: “Turns Out My Ivy League Education Is Worth Squat” ©2020 Verizon Media. Students read the KWHS article “Inflation: What It Is, Where It Comes From and How It Can Bite You” to frame the issue and to get a better sense of how inflation affects youth. Penn currently has no plans to adopt a grade inflation policy, but certain departments seek to control grade inflation within their own courses. I got another round of questions from a reader, to which I’ve responded below: 1. We made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote. I found Duke to be an intense and draining experience, but that’s probably because I was pre-med (and a science major) so many of my courses had heavy workloads and were graded on a curve. Despite grade inflation, most students do not earn all A's, according to federal education statistics. http://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2013/01/18/harvard-grad-seeks-babysitting-jobs/, Princeton grad works at a video store http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1353870-how-many-elite-school-grads-those-unemployed-statistics-2.html, The adventures of an unemployed Columbia grad He says grad school was a “cavalcade of misery, at least for the first three years”. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/law-school-grad-turned-call-girl-cristina-warthen-house-arrest-cheating-government-article-1.402237, Emory Law Student Lament: ‘We don’t need donuts, we need jobs.’ http://cew.georgetown.edu/unemployment/, MIT grad still unemployed after a year http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/06/24/google-is-not-impressed-by-your-fancy-ivy-league-credentials/. Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter. http://blogs.newsobserver.com/tv/duke-grad-called-elitist-kicked-off-apprentice, A self portrait created in 2003 may help this struggling, 2012 Duke graduate to find her way out of poverty Part of MultiCultural/HPMG News. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865577918/Unemployment-crisis-for-law-school-grads-deepens.html?pg=all, From Ivied Halls to Traveling Salesman (includes a UPenn grad) http://georgetownvoice.com/2010/02/18/graduate-unemployment-rises/, “Unhappy anniversary: My first year of joblessness” – Recent Johns Hopkins graduate wonders what Congress is doing to help http://abovethelaw.com/2010/07/emory-law-student-lament-we-don’t-need-donuts-we-need-jobs/, Being an Unemployed Ivy League Grad Students read the KWHS article “Inflation: What It Is, Where It Comes From and How It Can Bite You” to frame the issue and to get a better sense of how inflation affects youth. http://etiennema.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/being-an-unemployed-ivy-league-grad/, Even a Yale Pedigree Could Leave One Unemployed The grade point average (GPA) is calculated at the end of every term based on the following grading scale: Do you believe this to be true? http://personalitycafe.com/education-career-talk/132189-8-months-out-no-job-i-guess-my-ivy-league-masters-degree-waste-money.html, Ivy League degree, no job Turns out, it’s not difficult… the more I look, the more I find. 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