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...addition, firms have begun to take into account the wide variety of professional interests among students, particularly the desire to work for social good. For instance, JP Morgan allows its new analysts to defer employment for two years to participate in Teach For America (see “Those Who Can, Teach?” page 14). Bain, meanwhile, developed The Bridgespan Group, which offers analysis to non-profit organizations, and spun it off six years...
...Today, Teach for America (TFA), the product of Kopp’s thesis, is wildly successful by any standard. According to TFA’s website and promotional materials, nearly 19,000 college seniors applied last spring, including more than 10 percent of Yale’s graduating class. TFA turned more than 80 percent down, making it harder to get into than the University of Pennsylvania. A total of 4,400 corps members are currently teaching in 25 urban and rural areas...
...participants speak of the corps in beatific terms: according to them, TFA is the hardest job on the block, and the most rewarding. “In terms of my mindset and my confidence, Teach for America has been life-changing for me,” says Kristi L. Jobson ’06, a former FM editor who now teaches middle school students in the Bronx...
...profit competes for self-starting, hard working leaders who can think on their feet with the big boys of Harvard recruiting. And TFA, by way of the districts they teach in, offers as little as $25,000 in compensation per year, a mere quarter of what a first-year analyst at a top firm can expect...
...Life Sciences” and “Physical Sciences”—both under the general heading of “Science and Technology”—are designed to teach key scientific concepts and place them in the context of contemporary social issues...