<p>Hedge funding? I think it’s Hedge Fundoscopy. ;)</p>
<p>Miami is not a target, but it still has a decent bschool. It will place a few kids into BBs every year, but not nearly as many as the Ivies and other top 5-10 bschools.</p>
<p>I will say that for ib and hf, the list is different. Econ at a liberal arts school is good enough for ibanking but hfs usually prefer more technical knowledge. Quant-trading is a whole other story.</p>
<p>is Rice really considered 2nd tier as posted earlier? what about Wake Forest?</p>
<p>^No. 10 char</p>
<p>jesus christ this targets/non-target thing is really not that hard…</p>
<p>Go to U.S. news, look at the college rankings, remove niche schools like Caltech, and you have a pretty good ranking of targets</p>
<p>With the exception of some strong business programs like Wharton moving up a bit and more liberal arts schools like Yale moving down a little, there’s no reason to believe anything would change from college to job recruiting or b school.</p>
<p>Does UNC see IB recruitment? I’m an international looking to go into trading, and its either Purdue or UNC for me, which makes me think that UNC might be better between the two.</p>
<p>(Doing Comp Sci or Comp Eng)</p>
<p>I worked at GS. That list is bogus and might just be based on one group. My group was about 60% Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard, MIT. Then Duke, Cornell, Columbia, Brown. Any list without Princeton and Dartmouth isn’t real.</p>
<p>Do I have any shot at all? I’m attending Syracuse’s Whitman School of Management (#38 USNWR) in the fall.</p>
<p>Lol not really</p>
<p>Do not answer in jest, because people will take your answer seriously.</p>
<p>HYP, Wharton, Stern, Sloan, UCB, UM</p>
<p>I would group all the aforementioned top tiers together and say GPA/Connections/Knowledge/Experience > College prestige.</p>
<p>what about Bentley?</p>
<p>A lot of in the information in this post is horribly inaccurate. </p>
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<p>UCB, UM, and (in my opinion) Stern are not higher than Duke, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Stanford. </p>
<p>Other than Ross and Haas specifically, I would barely consider UCB and UM semi-targets. Maybe for regional banks in SF and the Midwest, respectively, but those schools don’t even compare with the ones I mentioned for NYC. </p>
<p>Bently = not a target.</p>
<p>I need help!!! I am admitted by Stern of NYU and Columbia(Econ+Math). I really do not know which one to choose…I want to work in finance or other buisness areas. My first choice is to be a trader, but other finance/business positions are great to me too. Does not have to be IB.
In that case, which one may be better for my career path?</p>
<p>I would go to Columbia. It will do as well, and probably better than Stern in terms of getting you a job in high finance and will have greater long-term prestige.</p>
<p>^I agree. Also, it’s much better IMO to have a non-vocational degree from your undergrad institution – and many employers would agree, all else equal (particularly for trading). Given that both schools place well (Columbia perhaps better), save the vocational training for graduate school.</p>
<p>I heard about “not pursuing vocational degree for undergraduate” too. However, if I graduate from Columbia as Econ+Math, what jobs can I get except for IB? Since IB is so hard to get that only a small fraction of students in Columbia can get?</p>
<p>If I go to Stern, studying Finance and Accounting, I may work in traditional banks, hedge fund, accounting firm, etc. It may be a bigger range of choices, isn’t it?</p>
<p>I do not have to work in IB, other finance institutions, or brokers, are all good for me. I am wondering whether these firms will also hire from Columbia Econ+Math, since I may not have much professional skill.</p>