(Regarding dating app The League)

The founder, Amanda Bradford, has said that neither school nor job will necessarily get you in nor keep you out. It's a holistic process. It's laughable that your buddy thought he would be a shoo-in just because he's a Goldman IBD VP. And for the record, finance is still the most represented sector amongst The League members in NYC, so it's not like the site hates finance types.

The most prestigious things in life are by nature based on subjective criteria. That is part of what makes it so prestigious. You cannot use a precise formula to gauge why someone gets in or doesn't, and that mystery adds to the allure. To use a school example, the Indian Institute of Technology has a much lower acceptance rate than Harvard, and admission is based strictly on a nationwide entrance exam. Its admission is about as objective as it gets, but Harvard is still a lot more prestigious despite its use of holistic admission. I see The League as playing a similar role, hence adding to the desire of people to get in. I think the site is a game changer and will be enormously successful.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3674338&forum_id=2#33770721)

mbavsmfin:

I agree with you entirely on this. I would love to hear your view on how SATC destroyed NYC culture.

To give you a better understanding, SATC is to girls what American Psycho is to you guys.

West Village brownstone : American Gardens Building

Brunch at Mercer Kitchen : Dinner at Dorsia

Finally convincing some wealthy, aged "finance tycoon" to marry you : Shooting a kitten???

While you've probably figured out that M&E isn't so good for the LinkedIn profile, your female counterpart hasn't realized that the career of "freelance blogger" just doesn't offer great exit opps. Not like she cares, anyway--NYC is filled with rich finance dudes, one of whom she'll totally marry and have six babies with. It doesn't matter that she's 26 years old and barely makes a livable wage, because money doesn't DEFINE her. Besides, YOU should be bankrolling her lifestyle since you're flush with cash anyway and because she DESERVES it.

She's cute! She's smart! She's funny and quirky and "a complete nerd"! She spends $200 on chiffon shirts she can't afford, carries a PADFOLIO she barely uses, and grabs La Colombe on her way to her temporary BuzzFeed gig in the morning--she's a YOUNG PROFESSIONAL. You should be honored to date a catch like her.

SATC destroyed NYC culture by encouraging delusional brats to come and try their chances here. The show glorified NY by only showing cute stuff, like shoe shopping and snow(!!!!), while cutting out shots of garbage mountains on the black slush-covered sidewalks and the rat battalions that love them. NYC is overpriced, filthy, depressing, and filled with sociopaths, but these bobbleheads seem to love it. And if Carrie could make it here on an artist's salary, so can ANY ambitious, talented girl!

Unfortunately for the universe, these girls don't really get what ambition and talent really are. It still surprises me when I meet women my age [or even older] who talk like they're illiterate cartoon squirrels, going on and on about their stressful and demanding jobs as EAs or fashion stylists. Really? Was it that hard to book a hotel room within 1 mile of the conference center? Was it so painfully difficult to sit around at a photo shoot for, God forbid, 9-and-a-half hours, taking selfies and playing Candy Crush? Was it worse than leaving for the airport in the middle of the night to fly to some state you forgot was even a part of the Union so you can work out of a conference room that smells faintly of cabbage or cheese for the unforeseen future? OMGGGGGGG, YESSSS, it was SO bad that she was LITERALLY going to DIE.

The amount of complaining and whining to which I'm forced to listen is truly astonishing. These girls actually think that their roles as Community Manager at a social media marketing startup or Account Strategist at a "boutique fashion PR firm" are more stressful and demanding than life. They complain about how everything "isn't fair"... I don't think I've heard anyone say that in the past five years, other than my five-year-old nephew when he had chicken pox. I somehow dodged being inflicted with Special Little Snowflake Syndrome, so guess what? I'm now known as being "SUCH a Miranda" (the cynical, workaholic ginger in the bunch who just so happens to be the least attractive and most unhappy. Fun.)

So what you have is the deadly combo of SATC reruns offering a grossly misleading depiction of NY to an idealistic moron with an inflated sense of self. This girl truly believes that she's earned the RIGHT to live and play here for God knows what reason, and can't wait to meet her own Mr. Big, preferably one who makes at least mid six figures so that they'll never need to move to Connecticut because she can't imagine EVER living anywhere else (despite the fact that she only moved here last March).

As for this "League"... thing, I predict that it'll die a slow, quiet death. Any human being with a panty drop-enducing resume and a modicum of social grace doesn't need a fucking dating app, especially those of the female variety. If you are a girl in SF or NYC, you will get hit on at any bar, so long as you 1) don't look like a bridge troll, and 2) aren't a raging cunt. This girl and her friends have apparently failed on both counts. Then there are plenty of creeps and high functioning autistic individuals with impressive academic pedigrees, but the super elitist of these (to which the founder is probably trying to appeal in order to boost "prestige") will likely scoff at the fact that CMU alumni are allowed to join. What you'll be left with are a bunch of socially awkward nerds from Cornell and insufferable feminists who only look good in dim lighting, and nobody needs to download an app to deal with that shit... just head on over to any bar in Midtown!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3674338&forum_id=2#33771983)

Hinge

Classmates urged me to join this site, and so far I have been extremely impressed. It's similar to Coffee Meets Bagel in that you only see profiles of friends of facebook friends. The quality of women is outstanding, and you get multiple matches per day, not just one. It seems like a lot of the smart attractive NYC women who are disillusioned with Tinder and Cofffee Meets Bagel have migrated to Hinge as an alternative venue. I have a few dates lined up through this site, and I'm excited to see what unfolds.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3674338&forum_id=2#33771932)

Not sure when he wrote the original HBS Buddy email , but do you think this is an Easter egg left to us by JJC?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3674338&forum_id=2#33771971)

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Now hold on there hoss. If the algo is keeping JJC away from the quality women, I'm pretty sure the programmer is doing a fantastic job.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3674338&forum_id=2#33775247)

We'll see what unfolds indeed. Heh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3674338&forum_id=2#33775259)

My job is super laid back, and the hours are fantastic. I also like my group. But there is not enough modeling, valuation, and research. I also hate the city I live in and badly want to move to either NYC/Chicago/LA.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3674338&forum_id=2#33770663)

"It would be very interesting to see how this unfolds."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3674338&forum_id=2#33775274)