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		hga on July 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. Senator blasts Microsoft's H-1B push as it la... Plenty of them with serious math chops, such as MIT EECS graduates, become quants in Wall Street and the like, at least for a while.

freyr on July 19, 2014 [–]

> Plenty of them

Wall Street does draw some students from the math/physics/EECS departments of the very top ranked schools, but this represents a tiny percentage of students graduating nationwide with STEM degrees.

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