Bulge Brackets not in NYC, easier for someone from a non-target to break into?

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<p>Ok so it seems like everyone aiming for high finance wants to work in Lower Manhattan/Wall Street, and I don't blame them so do I. </p>

<p>But I am going to start this fall at a non-target, OSU. Excited, but I realize I have an uphill battle to fight. IB (at a BB and in general) is hard for anyone to break into, but even harder from a non-target and I'll have even less room for error. People have mentioned trying to transfer and I'll probably send a couple of apps out, but transferring sounds like a pain and my parents would whine about everything if I go out of state, which I'll have to, OSU is arguably the best for Ohio and I don't really like any other school in Ohio lol (that wouldn't really stop me from transferring if I want to and find a school that would work financially). Just was a pain listening to them when I was trying to pick schools, my other choice was school about 10 hours away (another non-target) and they kept mentioning how will I get my stuff down there or how would I get back or what if I get sick (...exactly why I wanted to leave the state lol)</p>

<p>They're lucky we couldn't afford USC lol</p>

<p>But anyways sorry, that was a little long, I'll get down to the nitty gritty. Here's Goldman Sachs' location list:</p>

<p>Goldman</a> Sachs | United States</p>

<p>(just using GS b/c it seems like they are kinda used as a measuring stick or the most known BB, correct we if I'm wrong though)</p>

<p>So GS is located in 17 different cities (I'm assuming all of them have IBD?). Logical to assume IBD NYC at Goldman is the hardest spot to get coming out of college?
I've heard LA and Chicago and SF are pretty tough too. I'd really like either LA or Chicago in NYC does not work out. </p>

<p>But what about some of the other locations? Miami? Atlanta? Salt Lake City?</p>

<p>little bit easier(but still not easy haha) to break into than NYC? (and where does the Salt Lake City recruit from?)</p>

<p>I was just thinking about this topic the other day. I used to live in NYC and would love to return to work in finance there, but I'd probably be just as happy in Chicago or LA as well. And pretty much every location on the list would work fine for me and an IBD job at Goldman Sachs, is an IBD job at Goldman Sachs. </p>

<p>So should I attempt to cold-call and network as many offices as I can? Couldn't really hurt I guess, but you guys know more than me. </p>

<p>Thanks, I was just wondering.</p>

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<p>Why don’t you try asking Susan Geier at <a href=“mailto:geier_3@fisher.osu.edu”>geier_3@fisher.osu.edu</a> or 614-292-8587. She is the contact person for Fisher Futures. If she doesn’t know, who would? Judging from the resumes/internships of people in Fisher Futures, which apparently is a very small group of the elite of the elite at OSU, you might have a tough time getting into high finance from Ohio State.</p>

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<p>Some of those offices do not have IBD</p>

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<p>Thanks for the replies guys. </p>

<p>Someone was nice enough to PM me the lowdown and that really helped, yeah you’re right hookem, seems like most offices do not have IBD. </p>

<p>I have orientation this week bthomp and I’ll try to ask around then. </p>

<p>Fisher Future kids have some pretty impressive resumes, no doubt. A lot of 4.0/near 4.0 GPAs with some nice ECs. There are only 9 people in the program, bur I heard it is not super super hard to get into Futures since not that many people are interested in banking from OSU. </p>

<p>But yeah, breaking into high finance is going to be a bear coming from OSU but at least OSU is huge and some alumni would have had to have trickled down to Wall Street/high finance. Not gonna be easy, but I’m going to do my best to play with the cards I’ve been dealt. </p>

<p>thanks guys</p>

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<p>I know Salt Lake is research, Houston probably energy. Palm Beach is only private wealth type stuff likely.</p>

<p>Even though Fisher isn’t a target, there’s a chance some engineers and others from OSU went on to IB after an MBA at another school. Try to use LinkedIn and get the names, then look into the school’s alumni directory to get their email or phone (assuming they don’t have their own alumni database listing occupation already). The business school might have it’s own alumni directory with more information about occupation.</p>