Nah breh, you have it backwards. She was directly in her ChE lab/research courses and shifted from that point, that's why she chose consulting. She was bored in those classes and couldn't see her doing that the rest of her life. I'm not proving your point, I think you're missing it.
So she chose a major she didn't have real interest in, possibly because taking that major gives her rep among people like you who big-up it so much. (Since obviously a huge number of her personal decisions to that point had been about maintaining her repuatation).
She purposely avoided other courses that she DID have interest in because she heard they were hard and it would take too much work to maintain her 4.0. She straight up said that in the first video I watched of her.
Then, after having completed college for rep rather than for depth and not being at all interested in what she was doing, she ditched her entire career path and went into an entirely different, non-STEM field that was about as big a sell-out move as you can get.....which she proceeded to also quit after less than two years to do tutoring and youtubing.
You're really not going to convince me that she made the best use of her education or that she was a great use of Caltech's resources.
Also it's funny, the fact that you and others who are probably reading this thread know more about how much people do to get into these universities that they didn't know before goes to show how much more impact she had on the world choosing her path that she did.
There isn't one thing I learned from this thread that I didn't know before, these people have existed for 20 years and they're embarassing.
She instead could've ended up getting talent hoarded and stashed by some major company so she doesn't become competition for them, like is the case for many of these Caltech and M.I.T graduates and a trend that has been at an all-time high in the job market.
Once again proving what a joke this so-called "meritocracy" is or the idea that training these particular people rather than others is some great benefit to the world.
Instead, she's directly affected people here and millions of others. She's on red carpets for pushing actual content encouraging people to excel in school and giving them the tools for learning STEM. That's exactly an example of the type of students Caltech wants some more of.
From the Caltech perspective, what about her Caltech education plays any part in her content? Virtually everything she says regards stuff she already knew in high school. Nothing she talks about came from Caltech content. If Caltech really cared about pushing content like this, then why don't they teach it in any of their courses?
From the world's good perspective, do you seriously think her channel closes the educational gap or widens it? From looking at her content and reading the comments, I would bet you anything that she's widening the gap. Her content isn't designed for people who come from actual difficult situations and so far as I can tell she's done nothing to get to know those people. Instead, she's speaking to the people she knows with similar experiences to her but who haven't "cracked the code" yet. There's no sign that she has made any sort of moral/ethical shift while going from chem eng major to corporate stooge to youtuber, and it's not like she said in any of her videos that she had a change of heart about her life path. She said herself in the video that she saw youtubing as just another thing to succeed at.
