Out of UVA, Middlebury, and WashU, how would you rank the way investment banks look at the schools? I know all are good schools, but finance majors always consider prestige…
You should look at who recruits on campus and where graduates place for internships and post grad jobs.
Don’t go to Middlebury expecting to major in finance. You could choose Economics. Plenty do and go on to work in Wall Street type jobs.
Go where you would be happiest. All can get you where you want to go if you have the right combo of personality and strong academic performance. And get some strong summer experience!
You might get more responses if you posted this under college search and selection.
None of them are known as classic Wall Street feeder schools. That means that for a lot of companies you may need to do treks and a lot of networking. Because of this the grad alums will become important. My guess is that UVa grad alums will have stronger presence because of their MBA program Also GPA will matter. I think WashU could be harder from a GPA perspective.
Based on that I would say UVa >Middlebury> WashU
But you can make it work or fail in any of the schools so individual perseverance will be most important
Middlebury ranks in the top 20 of all schools, not just LACs, for Investment Banking according to LinkedIn. They are the third highest ranked LAC for IB placement, behind only Amherst and Wellesley.
You don’t even have to choose Econ at schools without Finance majors. Statistics and Math majors go into IB, as do all kinds of humanities majors.
Middlebury ranks very high for IB and Wall Street, pretty much all majors from philosophy to foreign language to economics and math.
UVA if you get into McIntyre.
Oddly I don’t think WashU is highly recruited.
Thanks everyone for the awesome insight! I guess I’m between UVA and Middlebury now… any more points I should keep in mind to narrow the choice?
Cost, size, weather, setting…
Costs are essentially equivalent, and I am pretty equivocal about the weather. I think size is a consideration
I vote for Middlebury but that’s just my style. I’m not a fan of greek life and wearing dresses to football games (or even going to football games). 
I work on wall street. I dont see much difference, pick the school where you would most flourish.
FYI, regarding the comment about WUSTL being least of the 3,
a successful colleague of mine not only went there, just sent his 2 sons too.
I’m doing IB at one of the bulge bracket banks this summer. The intern class roster has people from all of those schools, so I’d recommend focusing more on fit (and major, as others have pointed out).