<p>I never knew hedge funding is a word</p>
<p>Learn something new every day</p>
<p>If this Duke ■■■■■ is correct, I find it suspicious why so few people want to go there over almost a dozen other schools: [The</a> New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html]The”>The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices)</p>
<p>Haha, because high school seniors don’t choose their college based on it’s strength of recruiting for investment banking. I don’t think high school seniors even know what investment banking is, lol.</p>
<p>UMLawMan,</p>
<p>I see you’re really new to CC but that survey had been disproved time and time again on CC and is incredibly flawed. It only surveyed students living in certain pockets of the NE which tend to favor the Ivy League and its now outdated. Please try harder.</p>
<p>“His comments about size are actually probably accurate.”</p>
<p>Not really Giants. For LDB’s argument to hold, we must assume that 100% of the smartest and most capable Michigan undergrads are enrolled in Ross. In truth, only 20% of them are. 30% of them are enrolled in the CoE and another 50% are enrolled in LSA. Admittedly, and to both my delight and relief, Michigan’s student body is not Investment-Banking/Consuting-obsessed. Our students are intellectually divers, and the number of students who dream of becoming Engineers, educators, artists etc… Only a very small percentage of Michigan’s total student population (definitely less than 10%) is interested in majoring in Business. Of those, 50% are enrolled in Ross, the other 50% were not good enough and are majoring in whatever chosen field in LSA or the CoE. </p>
<p>Now there are some qualified students who are interested in pursuing careers in IBanking and Consulting at LSA or the CoE. Here, I will admit that those two colleges’ career offices, particularly the former’s, do not do nearly enough to help those students out. The CoE’s career office is excellent for students pursuing Engineering professions and graduate school, but for those who wish to cross over to other professions, it can certainly improve. Even then, several of the main IBanks and Consulting firms actively recruit at the CoE, but with more effort on the CoE career office, the results could be significantly better. LSA is even worse. The career office is great at graduate school counseling and placement, but when it comes to connecting with recruiters, they really need to improve. </p>
<p>Lesdiablesbleus, very few people who has real influence in recruiting matters in IBanks segregates universities like you do, and among those that do, you have as many who are likely to think that Ross is “heads and shoulders” above Dartmouth and Duke. Unfortunately, for some mysterious reason, Dartmouth and Duke do no publish placement records. They can confidently list the “top recruiting companies” list, but they somehow cannot substantiate those claims or provide hard numbers to help you in this debate. You can claim all you want that they don’t have the means to do so, but given their size, they really should be able to. Michigan’s LSA publishes Law school enrollment by institution for example. It would publish professional placement data, but it really does not involve itself much in such things…much to my chagrin. Until such a time that you can prove your wild claims, I suggest you keep your unsubstantiated and inaccurate opinions to yourself, especially when a guest on another university’s forum. </p>
<p>Finally, my handle on statistics is fine and my analysis above was sound. Other than size differences between Ross and Wharton, student makeup between the two schools should also be taken into consideration. Ross has a far larger percentage (50% roughly) of students interested in working in Manufacturing, Marketing and Operations than Wharton, where 75% of students are hell-bent on becoming Investment Bankers or Consultants. But at least I agree that Wharton is better than Ross. I have always said as much. But Dartmouth and Duke, my 13 years of experience in the real world have not shown me that they belong in Wharton’s league.</p>
<p>I was kidding about you bearcats (well, kinda), so don’t take too much offense, please? And I can’t claim to praise Michigan to ridiculous levels (my opinions are somewhere between yours and Alexandre’s) so I resent being lumped into that group!</p>
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<p>I suppose that has some merit, but you also have to look at Penn in that respect as well. Are 100% of the smartest and most capable students at Penn enrolled in Wharton? Not likely. I’m not saying one of you are completely right with respect to this point; it’s probably somewhere in between. And I’ll second the diversity notion - would be a pretty tense, and fairly boring, school if everyone wanted to go into finance!</p>
<p>I agree Giants. When it comes to Wall Steet, Wharton/Penn > Ross/Michigan. No doubt about it. I always say as much, even to students considering both schools.</p>