Date: February 7th, 2026 2:17 PM
Author: Justinian the Great
https://x.com/tim2_12/status/2020200111473676524?s=46
Adding to the rat race, if you get AA-blocked from tier 1/2 colleges and attend a bigger state school instead, usually your only path into prestige jobs is through highly competitive pre-professional clubs. If you don’t get into them you’re basically fucked.
https://x.com/favelaoverlord/status/2020189603093967020?s=46
On the topic of grind culture and the Asianification of America: something that has gone critically underanalyzed is the increasing predominance of 'pre-professional' clubs/societies in prestige universities that basically feed directly into top-tier careers (usually finance).
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5832128&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49653617)