<p>A lot of companies recruit at a ton of schools- whether you have a realistic chance or not of getting said job is a completely different story. Targets and semi-targets are schools that banks hire frequently from. IMO, the difference between a target and semi-target comes down to prestige/location. Most targets aside from Stanford are East Coast schools like the Ivies, Duke, etc. These schools have good chances for New York offices, but semi-targets like Northwestern, Chicago, Washington U, are good for Chicago, Rice good for Houston, etc.</p>
<p>That Wesleyan isn't mentioned once in this thread sure provides a lot of comfort and assurance to a presumptive Wesleyan '12 like me. Oh well, better start working on that transfer file....</p>
<p>(sarcasm)</p>
<p>Truth is, no way would I want to take a 45k job in NYC after graduate. It is below NYC living wage. If I don't get into i-banking or consulting, I am screwed. Pure and simple.</p>
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<p>Name one. If you can't, don't assume that someone like that exists.</p>
<p>All the big banks go to Wash U, they do on campus presentations, interviews and hiring. That makes it a target school.Because of its location, some of the smaller firms in the east coast may not come to the campus, but they will certainly post on Wash U's career job boards.</p>
<p>I've been told by MD's that Chicago and NU are targets. Basically, all top 15 are going to get recruited. I'm sure I'm missing a few in the top 15 though (like Haas/Berkeley).</p>
<p>cbreeze, maybe not Long Island State, I think I misheard the school my uncle's superior went to, but it wasn't a top school. It was SUNY Albany. My bad. My uncle also went to one of the colleges in that book Colleges that Change Lives. Not exactly a top school, yet he ended up working at an investment bank in the front office. You can eventually land jobs at investment banks if your goal in life is to be a banker regardless of where you went to school. However, if you want to get there right out of college, you have huge uphill battles if you don't go to a target school. There are people from no name schools working at investment banks. They are few and far between, but they do exist. There are probably more people from Harvard in most analyst classes than there are people from no name schools.</p>
<p>I think I just realized where i got Long Island State from, My uncle said that he had a few coworkers from local schools in Long Island a few years ago. I misremembered them. It still doesn't change the fact that there are people from mid level schools at BB. However, they have to work a lot harder and fight a lot more to get even an interview compared to an equal or lesser applicant from a target school.</p>
<p>some please say something about Wesleyan....
This is really worrying</p>
<p>Some of you all are confusing target schools and schools that get some BB recruiting...</p>
<p>Because a school may have some banks come to campus does not make it a target by any means...for example WashU is a semi-target...maybe...at best...</p>
<p>If you really want to see who the targets are look at the schools that are consistently well-represented across the Street.</p>
<h1>67 - you've got two weeks until orientation. Can't all of this faux Edwardian angst wait until you've unpacked your bags and had a chance to talk to some upperclassmen or the people at career counseling? If you PM me, I'll let you in on a big secret. :)</h1>
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<p>I've found that less Wesleyan grads are interested in working in IB or getting an MBA than those from comparable schools.</p>
<p>I think with hard work and a lot of special and extra attributes and activities that show you can work hard, you can get an interview. But I'm 17 so what do I know.</p>
<p>how would you guys rate uva? i haven't heard much about it hear and it's starting to worry me a little even though i know at this point theres nothing i can do</p>
<p>Those who think there are more students from Harvard than noname schools in BB analyst classes are totally misguided. That's simply not true. There are plenty of people from schools like Providence College, Ithaca College, Villanova, etc. Mind you there aren't several from the same school, but there are many from different noname schools.</p>
<p>nauru,</p>
<p>What exactly is your point though?</p>
<p>There are significantly more students from targets which tend to be "brand-name" schools, not including just Harvard but the rest of the Top 10 universities, than there are from no name schools such as "Providence College, Ithaca College, Villanova," which send very few per SA/FT class.</p>
<p>I don't see how that would comfort anyone. Or maybe you were trying to illustrate a completely different point...</p>
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Is it possible to move from boutiques to BB?</p>
<p>How much does the worst boutiques pay? Is it hard even to get into the lousiest boutiques?
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<p>Bringing up this question again. I don't see myself getting into a decent boutique unless I can get my GPA up and get 2 more internships in during fall and spring before I graduate.</p>
<p>Majayiduke, I was responding to the following comment made earlier:</p>
<p>"There are probably more people from Harvard in most analyst classes than there are people from no name schools."</p>
<p>This is false.</p>
<p>Ah, gotcha man.</p>
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"There are probably more people from Harvard in most analyst classes than there are people from no name schools."</p>
<p>This is false.
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<p>nauru, you're grouping all no name schools together. While it may be true that there are more analysts from no name schools combined, the no name schools individually have nowhere near the number of analysts Harvard/wharton have</p>
<p>What about Johns Hopkins?</p>
<p>would it be better to get a degree in applied mathematics and economics at georgia tech or a degree at emory in finance and business management?
emory would be alot more expensive for me but i heard it is worth it.</p>