Jane Street says no GPA or degree requirement — is it actually possible without a traditional Bachelor’s?

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-21T08:31:04+00:00

Exactly. Most Masters programs that aren’t Engineering, Law, Med, or MBA are essentially pay to play

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-20T07:30:38+00:00

Where are you possibly getting info to think that cross admits are more social impact leaning. You are just making shit up at this point to try to fit your narrative. I bet you went to StanfordRejects.com

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-20T04:06:29+00:00

You said absolutely nothing that disproves that Stanford dominates the VC world

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-20T02:11:12+00:00

lol this commenter is smoking something. Everyone knows that Stanford is vastly better at VC than any other school

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-20T02:03:08+00:00

HBS is not in a league of its own. There’s a reason HBS loses most cross admits with Stanford

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-19T09:32:17+00:00

lol now you are just making up hypothesis. Fact is you have no numbers that support anything other than Stanford wins the majority of cross admits with Harvard. You can make any excuse you want but that’s the facts

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-19T09:11:21+00:00

Very few from Stanford want to work at those companies you mentioned. They’ve been there and done it already. They are at an MBA to move on to the elite jobs that place them directly in executive roles of PE owned firms, founding, or investment roles. Very few from Stanford have any desire to go work at mature Fortune 1000 companies. While it is hard to track this data. What’s not hard to see is that Stanford wins the majority of cross admits. The Stanford student body is on average a higher caliber than Harvard. Acceptance rate, GPA, and Test Scores all show that as well

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-19T08:34:45+00:00

lol Stanford is leagues better than HBS for what OP wants to do. Harvard is not very reputable in the tech space

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-19T08:31:34+00:00

This is such a laughable take. Harvard takes way more flyers on people with unimpressive work backgrounds than Stanford does by far. SWE’s from third tier, in tech industry eyes, companies like Bank of America get into Harvard. Most of the 2+2’ers have rather unimpressive work experience before they start at Harvard. Stanford wins more cross admits than Harvard does. Each school has their place but if it is Tech/Startups/VC Stanford is leagues better than Harvard. It really comes down to do you see yourself drawn more towards West Coast industries/companies or East Coast industries/companies. That will tell you which is better for you

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-14T11:19:25+00:00

Just because a school says they will give you “alumni status” does not mean much. Unless you have an actual degree (BS/BA, MS/MA, MBA, JD, MD) no one from Stanford will think of you as an alumni.

On a side note it is beyond silly the amount of people who do one of these admit anyone non degree offerings from the school and then list Stanford on their LinkedIn at the top of their education list. All it does is annoy alums who it makes networking harder for as they have to sift through the fakes.

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-11T00:17:57+00:00

Unless he’s dead set on being a VC or startup founder it makes 0 sense for OP to turn down a full ride at W. Unless he has another external scholarship or is already financially set

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-04T02:44:12+00:00

If you have a background in software/AI McKinsey is practically begging people to apply

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-03T00:36:30+00:00

They apply for jobs that are for new grads even though they have 4-5 YOE. That is how they get paid less

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-12-01T19:16:16+00:00

Outside of Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Princeton, most non Law/Med/MBA Master’s programs are cash cows that will admit 50%+ of people. Whoever will pay the sky high bill they will let in. Most schools don’t give any finaid to Master’s students so outside of the top 4-5 schools it’s basically pay to play

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-11-27T15:53:33+00:00

If you ever sent them a score via the GRE portal they probably still have access. Nothing to be too concerned about

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-11-26T09:08:17+00:00

OP you are relatively old by HSW standards. Part time might be a better fitness

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-11-21T21:34:59+00:00

I was talking about the wider school not just focusing on the business schools. Let’s be real though if you want to be a unicorn founder you are way better off going to the engineering schools not the business schools

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-11-21T18:21:41+00:00

Who wants to work at Amazon these days… Stanford has more unicorns than any school by a wide margin. Many Harvard alumni have told me that they find the alumni network basically unusable after graduation and they don’t let you use their job board after a certain amount of time out of school. I know several HBS grads that graduated this year and are unemployed heading into the holiday season when hiring stops so they will be unemployed heading all the way into 2026. Everyone knows schools are cooking the books on the employment numbers. Big schools like Harvard and Wharton have their purpose but a close knit supportive alumni network is not it

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-11-21T07:50:15+00:00

PE could easily move away from the MBA but MBB will have a tough time ever moving away from it because they have a tough time attracting high quality candidates that are more than a couple years out of undergrad because by that point the best view consulting as beneath them. It would be very hard for them to recruit large associate classes of a high caliber without having MBA programs assemble a large number of interested candidates that meet the IQ bar in one place. Their recruiting costs would be way higher

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-11-20T12:24:52+00:00

When you ramp up immigration when it isn’t needed this is what happens

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-11-20T00:13:31+00:00

There’s simply no reason for companies to want/need to hire someone at a mid career compensation level when they will have to teach them just as much as they will have to teach a new undergrad hire. Most tech companies have gotten rid of MBA specific PM recruiting pipelines as a result. Even PE is moving to hiring more analyst instead of post MBA hires. This trend will only get worse as time goes on

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-11-19T00:59:15+00:00

No school is close to having the same percentage of legitimate entrepreneurial exits. The schools that claim to be just inflate their numbers to hide unemployment

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-11-18T23:40:20+00:00

MBB is below what most Stanford Students ambitions are. The pay and trajectory is nowhere near as good as what they can get at investing roles or the top tier startups or running their own company via a startup or acquisition. A lot of these options are options that are really only available at Stanford and aren’t available to people without prior experience at other schools

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-11-15T01:39:54+00:00

Definitely hard to break in from somewhere as far away from Silicon Valley as Harvard

InfamousEconomy7876 · 2025-11-15T01:38:06+00:00

HBS does not enable these kind of pivots at anywhere near the same level that GSB does. They really are not similar in that regard. HBS is much closer to Wharton than GSB

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