<p>Other than Wharton (obviously) what are the best undergrad schools for people looking to work in investment banking?</p>
<p>Chico State.</p>
<p>Any top 10 will get recruited. Most of the top 15 get some recruitment. Outside of that recruitment dwindles. All of the Ivies get recruited (in my experience they outperform similarly prestigious non-Ivies in the world of business). Big publics like Mich and Berk also get recruited for their business school (possibly for regional offices, don’t know too much about this to be honest).</p>
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<p>S&T Intern List
NYU 21 (Stern =13)
Penn 20 (Wharton=10)
MIT 12 (Sloan =5)
UVA 11 (McIntire = 9)
Princeton 9
Georgetown 9
Cornell 9
Duke 9
Columbia 9
Carnegie Mellon 8
Rutgers 6
BC 5
Chicago 4
Colby 4
Michigan 3
Dartmouth 2
Harvard 2
Yale 1
Stanford 1</p>
<p>2007 ML IBD by school</p>
<p>Harvard: 13
Princeton: 11
Dartmouth: 10
Penn (Wharton & CAS): 7
Duke: 7
Yale: 6
Stanford: 6
Columbia: 5
Michigan: 4
MIT: 4
Berkeley: 3
Williams: 3
Cornell: 3
UVA: 2
Brown: 2
UNC: 2
Indiana: 2
UCLA: 2
NYU (stern & CAS): 2
Amherst: 2
USC: 2
Wellesley: 2 </p>
<p>Based on the list, I’d say Ivies and top business programs.</p>
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<h2>[P.S: ^ I asked for approximations of UG representation at a BB from a contact of a sibling who’s an Associate. That list includes Analysts, Associates, and MDs, and was made through his own approximations.]</h2>
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<p>^ This. If you can’t get into an Ivy+Plus, go to a top UG business program. Some that come to mind:</p>
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<li>Georgetown MSB</li>
<li>Berkeley Haas</li>
<li>Michigan Ross</li>
<li>UTexas at Austin, McCombs </li>
<li>NYU Stern</li>
<li>UVA McIntyre</li>
<li>CMU Tepper</li>
<li>Indiana Kelley</li>
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<p>Does cornell’s AEM get recruited well?</p>
<p>I’ve been advised to steer clear of Penn CAS for IBanking/Wall Street jobs because Wharton always overshadows CAS and makes it harder for a CAS Econ kid to break in.</p>
<p>Then someone else told me that Wharton helps CAS out because Wharton attracts a lot of recruiters, who will invariably look at CAS kids too while they are recruiting. </p>
<p>So I am not sure, and this is from a transfer perspective by the way. Wharton is extremely hard to transfer into and CAS is pretty tough too but my chances are certainly better at CAS than they would be at Wharton.</p>
<p>Posted a thread similar to this post on the transfer subfourm and might repost something similar in the business forum. But I am torn, I will probably fall in love with my school, Ohio State. I love the atmosphere, size, rah rah, etc… Only real downside is I had to in-state when I really wanted to get out and how often did you see Ohio State mentioned in the above posts^^^? Michigan, USC or UVa would have been ideal. Not super great firm targets, but good enough to give me something to work with. Rejected at UVa and could’t afford UM or USC. Waitlisted and later denied at Georgetown as well. </p>
<p>Oh well, for now I’m just planning on kicking ass at Ohio State and hoping it will lead me to lower Manhattan four years from now.</p>
<p>^If it makes you feel any better, know that if UMich and USC were out of your price range, you wouldn’t have been able to afford UVA or Gtown either if admitted. Just go to OSU and kick some ass. Get in honors programs, network, etc.</p>
<p>If it was down to Cornell (AEM), GTown, UVa, NYU (stern), UMich (hypothetically) which would you recommend?</p>
<p>I am a Wharton student(upperclassman, not an incoming frosh). Of those schools I would choose Cornell AEM. They have the strongest New York connection of any of those schools. Not very many people graduate from the AEM program so it’s not as competitive as you think to get a good finance/consulting job. Cornell is just generally underrated. </p>
<p>I also think Gtown and UVA(the business school part, I forget the name) have good recruiting because there are a lot of alums at top firms.</p>
<p>Thanks knights. I could possibly afford Penn. Their FA site list a few hypothetical examples and one is pretty similar to mine and I would only have to borrow about $8k/yr. Not that bad. </p>
<p>But yeah, I’ve been using cost as a consolation and the fact that Ohio State has better school spirit and sports programs (well USC is comparable) than those schools…oh wait. Now more and more keeps coming out with the football team haha. We aren’t going to a BCS, let alone any bowl probably for that matter, any time soon.</p>
<p>WoodrowWilson, did you skip over NYU in myname’s post? I would think they have the strongest NYC connection. ;)</p>
<p>Thanks, my inclination has been Cornell, I just wanted to make sure (there are a lot of big red haters out here. . .)</p>
<p>Actually, I think Cornell AEM has a better connection to the NYC finance world than NYU does. Stern, while a strong program, is definitely not the ideal choice for the OP. I can not, in good conscience, tell someone interested in finance to go to Stern. Tons of wall street wannabes at Stern are getting burned. Econ degree from any top 20 school > Stern.</p>
<p>Important advice for OP: don’t focus on biz programs. Focus on overall prestige of the college. Dartmouth is amazing for jobs. Harvard is probably the best for job placement(and I am saying this as a Wharton student). Princeton, Columbia, Duke, Chicago, Stanford…</p>
<p>I understand that. My sense is that I am borderline ivy material to start with (my Cornell AEM chance thread has full info) so I am trying to be realistic in picking schools to apply to.<br>
Would you take Duke/chicago over UVa (Mcintire) or GTown MSB?</p>
<p>I would take Duke over those two, but probably not Chicago. Chicago draws recruiters but you need to deal with really tough Core grading and some crummy weather. </p>
<p>Even still, the best Wall Street feeders are probably Harvard, Princeton, Wharton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Yale, MIT. </p>
<p>Finally, consider many factors in choosing a college. Wall Street jobs aren’t that great. Also, no college(not even Harvard) will guarantee you a job at a top investment bank.</p>
<p>Awesome, thanks for the advice.</p>
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<p>^ You need to add Stanford (we dominate the West Coast, and still have recruiters from the East dying to recruit us and its just about the only undergrad school that gets decent VC action), but otherwise yeah that’s a good list. </p>
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<p>I disagree. Stern is beastly when it comes to IB recruiting. But its overall prestige does pale in comparison to the other Ivies. It doesn’t help Sternies that one of the most highly recruited Ivies, Columbia, is a mere subway ride from them. Still, I’d take it over numerous top-20 schools.</p>
<p>I agree with most or all of what WoodrowWilsonJR has posted and find it to be informative and, well, mature. S/he not trying to say “my school is better than yours” or that there is a worst or lower Ivy.</p>
<p>IB’s recruits at the schools that are highly selective and have students that had the highest HS credentials and now have the highest college credentials. </p>
<p>They want smart people.</p>
<p>Myname, I agree with President Wilson. Duke over all, but UVA/Georgetown over Chicago unless you’re a diehard economist (and posting in an IB thread probably means you aren’t ;)). The grade deflation at Chicago and the core will hurt you when you’re running against 3.8s from UVA and Georgetown.</p>