Best Undergraduate College for Investment Banking and Hedge Funding

<p>hmmm, why don't I see Northwestern?</p>

<p>Why do you think?</p>

<p>If I have time...which I won't since classes are winding down and I'm busy as hell...I'll post from the exact number representation from my 2007 Lehman Brothers IBD and S&T SA Book</p>

<p>Off the top of my head, I will say that my class was highly represented by the usual suspects</p>

<p>In the NYC Office (where I was): The Ivies, MIT, Duke, Michigan, Georgetown, NYU, UVA</p>

<p>In the Menlo Park Office: Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA (if I recall correctly)</p>

<p>In the Chicago Office: Northwestern, UChicago</p>

<p>Then you had the "non-targets" sprinkled amongst the various offices</p>

<p>LaxAttack,</p>

<p>I wonder where you got that list. According to <a href="http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/students/Internship_Directory.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/students/Internship_Directory.pdf&lt;/a>, three MMSS (math methods for social sciences) students that just graduated in 07 had summer internships with Merrill Lynch, 2 at NYC office and 1 at Chicago office. We are talking about a small program at NU that graduates 20 students each year, a tiny fraction of the entire NU. This isn't counting the rest of NU.</p>

<p>Maybe LaxAttack only posted people who actually got jobs at ML, not summer internships?</p>

<p>Maybe: but according to the following, NU had at least 3 grads that went to work for ML in 2005.<br>
<a href="http://www.northwestern.edu/careers/surveyoutcomes/pdfs/Salaries_from_OCR_employers_by_Function.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.northwestern.edu/careers/surveyoutcomes/pdfs/Salaries_from_OCR_employers_by_Function.pdf&lt;/a>
Was 2007 that different from 2005? :rolleyes:</p>

<p>Also if you look at recruiting events/school list for Lehman, JPM, or MS (MS's is not longer available as the hiring cycle just passed) Chicago/Northwestern are two of the schools that have more events than most schools and are among the selective group that got actual on-campus interviews (instead of resume drop); some of the schools on LaxAttack's list got only resume drop. My point is people need to take list like that from one bank of one summer/year with a huge grain of salt.</p>

<p>Wait a minute, Sam Lee </p>

<p>2 Things:</p>

<p>1) The link you sent has these students labeled as "Alum '07," which means they worked as summer analysts at Merrill Lynch during the summer of 2006 in order to get full-time offers starting in July 2007.</p>

<p>I believe LaxAttack posted for his summer analyst class of 2007, meaning he will working full-time at ML in July 2008.</p>

<p>2) Of those 3, 2 qualify as IBD summer analysts with the other as a GPC intern, and LaxAttack is showing the representation amongst IBD -- and no other division.</p>

<p>i am aware of the difference in year but like i said, in 2005, 3 or more were hired (response rate was only ~60%) by ML; in 2006, 2 from the MMSS program got IBD summer position at NYC and they were from a class of 20 people in the MMSS program, a tiny fraction of the entire NU. My point is, even if that 2007 list is legit, it's no way representative of where NU (or UChicago) stands in ML recruiting. I seriously doubt ML views NU/UChicago so differently from Lehman, JPM, or MS anyway.</p>

<p>I hope lists like the one Untitled posted will show students that you don't HAVE to go to wharton, stern etc to get into IB, that their CAS parts do equally well.</p>

<p>Find</a> Campus Events
Schools at which JPM scheduled on-campus interviews for IB:
Chicago
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Georgetown
Harvard
MIT
Mt. Holyoke
Michigan
Northwestern
NYU
Princeton
Virginia
Wesleyan
Williams
Yale</p>

<p>Not sure why no interviews on the west coast...there's no way stanford/berkeley aren't targets in general. just go to show people need to take various lists with a grain of salt.</p>

<p>Listen, just because a school is/isn't on a list doesn't mean it isn't a good school. Obviously NW places well in top banks, it's considered a soft target, it's better than 95% of schools in placement I'd argue. Hell look at the list above mine...do you really think that is a top bank? No way in hell, look at how little certain schools have compared to other schools. NW is an awesome school for IB, it's no hyp but few schools are. There's no reason you can't get IB from NW. You wont have any barriers getting you an interview, by far the most important step in the process.</p>

<p>EDIT: List above my list shows everything, not just IBD, so my comment about the strength of the bank is BS because all those "weaker" schools could have placed people into easier programs. Still I find it odd the minimal representation of stanford, yale, harvard, dartmouth...what bank is it by chance?</p>

<p>what are the "hard" targets: HYPSM, Wharton?</p>

<p>There's no definitive list but I'd certainly put those on there. Maybe add Columbia?</p>

<p>add NYU Stern? :D</p>

<p>If you were to ask me? No, but that's just my opinion. I'd place it alongside Duke, Haas, etc.</p>

<p>well, it may not be HYPSM, but it is fairly well recruited too, and those with a high GPA from there are very likely to be on par with those at HYPSM Wharton, in terms of getting recruited....</p>

<p>Agreed. If you do well @ Stern you'll get as much action as anybody at hypsw.</p>

<p>plus theres better ladies in NYC
so you'll get even more action :)</p>

<p>You also might end up getting STDs...so beware....lol</p>

<p>Dartmouth over Columbia and Stern in my experience. But all really close.</p>