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“I Went To Wharton. It Goes Without Saying That You Should Want To F*** Me.”

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Originally Posted by Eustace Tilley
This pic says it all:
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Those pants are cuffed, and I'll bet he specifies vodka--probably Grey Goose--in his martinis.
 

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Originally Posted by LabelKing
Those pants are cuffed, and I'll bet he specifies vodka--probably Grey Goose--in his martinis.

Of course. He's one of those middle-class peasants who thinks a martini is a vodka drink. I'll bet he also always specifies "shaken, not stirred" as if it indicates some rarefied level of sophistication.
 

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uh? what's wrong with a vodka martini? So it's not the traditional liquor for a traditional martini... who cares? I like both but I'm personally partial to vodka martini, for the simple reason that they taste better than gin martini IMO. Also, a shaken martini dissolves the vermouth better than stirred and is a colder drink so better for summers
 

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Originally Posted by LabelKing
Those pants are cuffed, and I'll bet he specifies vodka--probably Grey Goose--in his martinis.

And add some Red Bull, I went to Wharton, sweetcakes.
 

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Originally Posted by Soph
And add some Red Bull, I went to Wharton, sweetcakes.

What's your hot or not rating?
 

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Originally Posted by RJman
What's your hot or not rating?

Hey honey, I'm a 8.9 on hot or not and graduated from Wharton, the #1 school. Want to go back to my place?

A vodka martini if specified as a vodka martini is fine to order.
 

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Originally Posted by Soph
Hey honey, I'm a 8.9 on hot or not and graduated from Wharton, the #1 school. Want to go back to my place?
I was asking for my friend GQGeek.

Have you voted in the most entertaining posters and rest of the most threads?
 

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Originally Posted by Nantucket Red
But do you think this guy knows the chemistry of the drink that well, or does he choose his drinks merely to try to impress? Given his record so far, my guess is the latter. That's really what I was driving at.

I agree completely.

Originally Posted by RJman
I was asking for my friend GQGeek.

Have you voted in the most entertaining posters and rest of the most threads?


No, but I'll take a look.

You do not have Eric Glennie?

Is this guy for real or the most elaborate hoax ever? I am still torn.
 

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Originally Posted by Soph
Hey honey, I'm a 8.9 on hot or not and graduated from Wharton, the #1 school. Want to go back to my place?

A vodka martini if specified as a vodka martini is fine to order.


Want to come up and see my etchings?
 

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I really need to get rid of my 10+ year old 3-series.
 

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I don't mean to insult Wharton grads, but does anyone actually believe these random magazine rankings? Everyone knows that Wharton is a honest and solid #3 - HBS and Stanford are certainly more prestigious. I remember when I worked on Wall Street a few years ago, and Wharton was the safety school. The kids who couldn't get into HBS or Stanford accepted the Wharton offers.
 

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Originally Posted by Eustace Tilley
I don't mean to insult Wharton grads, but does anyone actually believe these random magazine rankings? Everyone knows that Wharton is a honest and solid #3 - HBS and Stanford are certainly more prestigious. I remember when I worked on Wall Street a few years ago, and Wharton was the safety school. The kids who couldn't get into HBS or Stanford accepted the Wharton offers.

Well I'm not sure when these years were but I can tell you that things have changed a lot since then. HBS and Stanford are not considered top b-schools for careers on Wall Street. They simply don't train the best finance people, nor do they attract people with this career in mind, to be fair. There are even some Wall St banks who don't consider HBS or Stanford as "core" schools for MBA recruiting. Wharton, Columbia, Chicago and Stern are consistently the top schools for a career in i-banking. This is not a random ranking, this is based on my experience of actual recruiting.

Doesn't mean that HBS or Stanford are not prestigious. They're very presigious and hard to get into. But b-school choice is not simply based on prestige of the institution, but also on the career direction that applicants are envisioning.
 

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Originally Posted by gdl203
Well I'm not sure when these years were but I can tell you that things have changed a lot since then. HBS and Stanford are not considered top b-schools for careers on Wall Street. They simply don't train the best finance people, nor do they attract people with this career in mind, to be fair. There are even some Wall St banks who don't consider HBS or Stanford as "core" schools for MBA recruiting. Wharton, Columbia, Chicago and Stern are consistently the top schools for a career in i-banking. This is not a random ranking, this is based on my experience of actual recruiting.

Doesn't mean that HBS or Stanford are not prestigious. They're very presigious and hard to get into. But b-school choice is not simply based on prestige of the institution, but also on the career direction that applicants are envisioning.


It wasn't that long ago.
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And after my banking stint, I worked in private equity for 4 years, so I have some sense of the recruiting landscape. I can honestly say that not a single bank, HF or PE shop cares about 'finance training.' B-School is a joke, and simply a two-year networking and career fair, and each firm acknowledges that the stuff learned in b-school is pretty useless.

I still have over a dozen friends all over Wall Street, and most indicated to me that HBS is always preferred over Wharton, but larger firms continue to recruit at both schools. Smaller, more exclusive firms, go only to HBS. For example, KKR and Och-Ziff (to name just two) only go on-campus to HBS and Stanford. And you have to be joking to include Stern and Chicago on that list. Not many good PE or HF firms of note go to Chicago.

On a broader note, my intention was not to talk smack about Wharton - its a fantastic school. My point was that these lists and rankings are completely useless in the real world. WSJ, for example, has Dartmouth as #1 this year which is laughable. Not a single applicant would choose any of the schools mentioned by you over HBS or Stanford regardless of their career path (especially if its finance).
 

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