Career funneling defined
Student experiences and campus pressure
Generational anxiety meets early specialization
Opportunities and critiques
Toward a broader perspective
For students stepping onto the campuses of America’s most prestigious universities, one question has become uncomfortably familiar: Should someone intervene to stop top-tier graduates from heading into management consulting? What begins as a playful inquiry masks a broader reality: Elite schools have become the starting point of highly orchestrated career pipelines, where finance, consulting, and technology firms aggressively court students from freshman year onward. The intensity of recruitment has reached a point where students often feel the pressure to plan their
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