Best UGrad Colleges for jobs on Wall Street

College Search & Selection
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<p>Im a junior from NYC suburbs, looking to major in Finance. I go to Catholic high school, there a 7 kids in my class we're all pretty much on same level, no rankings.</p>

<p>No honors or AP courses, My uw gpa is around 3.6. </p>

<p>SATs will be around 1850( give or take 50 points each way) </p>

<p>ECs:
Will be 4 years basketball team(starting center)
Working one summer as a a telemarketer for marketing company
Over 100-150 hours community service, some helping to rebuild convents and stuff for Catholic Church, will also be spending 2 weeks this summer volunteering to help Hurricane Katrina rebuilding effort.</p>

<p>Looking for ugrad colleges that will be able to give me a good job on Wall Street, high paying and highly rewarding job. Tuition is not a problem, location is not a problem, no boundaries .. If good companies recruit on campus that's great..... Fire away at what colleges I can get into with these stats, possible safeties-matches-reaches will be appreciated. I'm afraid becuase my stats aren't good enough for Wharton or Stern I'll never be able to get a good business job. =\ </p>

<p>I have virtually 0 connections in business world too, btw, 1st generation son of 2 Irish immigrants.</p>

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<p>Wall Street firms DO recruit at schools other than Ivy League/MIT/Stanford/whatever.. even state universities..</p>

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<p>like what schools are we talking? i wouldnt want to go to most SUNYs as i have friends who go there and they say that they are underfunded hell holes</p>

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<p>University of Michigan, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and University of Virginia all come to mind</p>

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<p>but with my stats dont I not stand a chance at any of those schools? I can't take any SAT IIs or APs..</p>

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<p>Ivies (and the like) are by far the best way, but if you can't go to an Ivy, go to the highest ranked ranked business school you can get into.</p>

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<p>thats great, but what business school could i possibly get into with my bad stats?</p>

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<p>Indiana would be a good target.</p>

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<p>wall street recruits from indiana?</p>

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<p>Yeah, Bear Sterns recruits pretty heavily from Indiana.</p>

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<p>~bump~</p>

<p>what about RIT? can i make that with my stats?</p>

<p>how about syracuse university?</p>

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<p>Fordham University's undergraduate College of Business Administration (CBA) is a great school if your goal is to land a Wall Street gig. Outstanding internship program and alumni network. They also have an MBA program.</p>

<p>Given your stats, I'd say it's a match school.</p>

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<p>thanks a lot for the advice, ill make sure to look into fordham university, can't believe i forgot about it- its only like 20 mins away from me</p>

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<p>Could you possibly get recruited for Basketball? Because if so, I think you might have a decent shot at Penn (Wharton) ED. You will never know until you apply.</p>

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<p>City College of New York (Baruch), and you can probably get a job now, and in four years you will be WAY ahead of the Ivyish competition.</p>

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<p>I would go for Fordham, Baruch, NYU (very good prospects for working on wall street, as is hashed out in soo many other threads), Indiana, and if i think of others ill post them later. </p>

<p>Im pretty surprised there are no mentions of NYU in this thread. That would have been first on my list.</p>

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<p>Why spend $200k for a business education that is not as good as Baruch? He could take the $200k and learn to become an investor! (Best way to learn how to become a Wall Street investor is to be one!)</p>

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<p>NYU--not the stats to have a shot.</p>

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<p>thx a lot guys, so far,</p>

<p>Fordham-match
CUNY baruch-match?
Indiana-Safety? (OOS) but it seems easy to get in</p>

<p>any others?</p>

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<p>Try CMU (Tepper)
It's actually pretty easy to get in and I think you have a realistic shot if you do ED I or ED II. </p>

<p>Here is some information:
Tepper 2005: </p>

<p>Max: 80k </p>

<p>Min: 40k </p>

<p>Median: 55,000 </p>

<p>Mean: 53,449 </p>

<p><a href="http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/employ/salary/ba.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/employ/salary/ba.pdf&lt;/a> </p>

<p>From the link you can see that many people go to New York and work for companies like JPmorgan/sach/merrill lynch.</p>

<p>Note: The avg (upenn)Wharton salary is 54k and the avg (nyu) Stern salary is 52k.</p>