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Stanford Students Choose Money over Mission

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Dakad, Murray and Andrews ask students to interrogate why we as students are choosing lucrative careers over impactful ones.

Opinions From the Community | Stanford students choose money over mission: But we don’t have to How can we tackle the defining issues of our time as consultants, big-tech engineers, and private equity analysts? (Courtesy of Anya Hooper '24) Opinion by From the Community March 17, 2025, 10:40 a.m. As a sophomore, I found myself interviewing for a position at Goldman Sachs with an enticing paycheck. I came to Stanford to study and fight the climate crisis, yet I was aspiring to spend my summer at a bank that has $19.44 billion in fossil fuel investments with an average 98-hour work week . Around

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