Given the financial crisis of the past few years and the reasons behind it, I think the magnetic draw of Wall Street has lessened to some extent. Smart students

Given the financial crisis of the past few years and the reasons behind it, I think the magnetic draw of Wall Street has lessened to some extent. Smart students still have the same fears of not being a success and the same draw to something that promises the possibility of greatness, but they're looking into other outlets. Anecdotally, I've seen a pretty big handful of my non-technical friends applying to Google and similar places. Googlers seem to have a nice lifestyle and the company has done a good job at fashioning their image such that they're seen as an instrument of social change (google.org), innovation, and ethical consistency.