best connection/network undergrad?

[gellino]

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As for the blame associated with the financial market mess, Wall Street and Washington are deservedly taking most of it. To the degree that one associates the Ivies and other elites with those scenes, the Ivy brand has been tarnished and this may impact the attractiveness of Ivy undergraduates as they interview in industries outside of investment banking and consulting, particularly in regions distant from the Northeast.

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<p>Employers are always seeking intelligent and accomplished candidates and a lot of these schools have a high percentage of such people. I don’t see companies holding it against Yale alums that some other Yale alums worked at a firms that went bankrupt or lost money.</p>

[Professor101]

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This lines up almost exactly with alumni giving rates and, in my opinion, the alumni loyalty of the Ivies.
Best Ivy League Schools By Salary Potential</p>

<p>Dartmouth
Princeton
Yale
Harvard
Penn
Cornell
Brown
Columbia

Maybe Slipper is onto something. Anybody knows the alumi giving rates of these schools? Hawkette may know this.</p>

[hawkette]

<p>There is an exact correlation with those at mid-career earnings (as reported by Payscale) and the strength of the college’s alumni giving rate. I’m not sure if this is coincidental or not, but if there is a connection, this shows the influence that income levels have upon giving rates. I also would guess that the industry choice of students at mid-career has a large impact on this as Dartmouth has been well known as a good feeder into Wall Street and consulting. However, it is certain that this gravy train is not what it used to be as the pot of gold at the end of the Wall Street rainbow is a lot smaller and likely to be regulated by the government.</p>

<p>Alumni Giving Rate , Mid-Career Salary , College</p>

<p>53% , $134,000 , Dartmouth
60% , $131,000 , Princeton
43% , $126,000 , Yale
41% , $124,000 , Harvard
38% , $120,000 , U Penn
34% , $110,000 , Cornell
40% , $109,000 , Brown
36% , $107,000 , Columbia</p>

<p>I also looked at the data for starting salaries and this is probably more relevant to many prospective students. </p>

<p>Alumni Giving Rate , Starting Salary , College</p>

<p>60% , $66,500 , Princeton
41% , $63,400 , Harvard
38% , $60,900 , U Penn
34% , $60,300 , Cornell
36% , $59,400 , Columbia
43% , $59,100 , Yale
53% , $58,000 , Dartmouth
40% , $56,200 , Brown</p>

[Bescraze]

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Maybe Slipper is onto something. Anybody knows the alumi giving rates of these schools? Hawkette may know this.

Slipper likes any list that dartmouth is on top of. Ivy grads have great oppurtunities to find any type of jobs, but obviously many of them feed into wall street. Its not just dartmouth, but everyone. They all have different things going for them in that regard, Penn is professional, Columbia in NYC ect..</p>

[Professor101]

<p>Hawkette,
Thanks for the data.</p>

<p>Bescraze,
Back to the topic, maybe alumni giving rate is a good measure of alumi network strength. Also, as the school size gets bigger, the giving rate is usually getting lower and maybe the network is getting weak too.
Last year, for the students that I know who applied for Ivies, only Penn and Columbia did not provide alumni interviews. This is only one data point, of course.</p>

[SSobick]

<p>This is a good thread.</p>

[Altamont]

<p>usc is very strong in california</p>