<p>i'm really interested in business & economics and i was wondering how to choose a business school. i would love to work on wall street and work for large firms as well.<br>
would location & connections of the college take precedence over rankings? for example, would it be more beneficial to study at villanova or penn state over a college like emory? (since villanova & penn state are closer to new york)
or would some place like fordham be better than a public college in indiana?</p>
<p>You will be recruited by Wall Street firm even if it is not a name school like Stern, Hass, Sloan or Columbia. The only advantage location wise is that you could intern on wall street while you are in class. I worked part time on wall street while taking a full acadamic load becase I was right there in downtown Manhattan. I could not think of any way to do what I did had I been in Chaple Hill.</p>
<p>do you work at a wall street firm full time now? do grads at colleges close to wall street usually get recruited by wall street regardless of the national reputation of the college? i’m debating whether to go to a place like fordham or a well reputed public school like the university of wisconsin. i would love to have a wall street job though</p>
<p>I applied for a part time job ad in the placement office and got into a trading company, it is not Goldman Sachs, but it is a wall street company, there are thousands of them. My school’s reputation is no where near to that of NYU or Columbia, but I don’t think it matters that much.</p>
<p>I worked in that firm for a year, but ended up did not take their job offer and went to work for HP.</p>
<p>does the pay differ much between an ivy/NYU grad and a grad at a place like fordham?</p>
<p>It will be hard for a Fordham student do what I did, because it takes almost one hour traveling between wall street and the Bronx. I was going to class from 9 to 10:50 and be at work 11… its that close.</p>
<p>oh ok. but how does pay differ from someone at NYU or an ivy school and someone from a non ivy?</p>
<p>it all depends. If you compare a Harvard 4.0 student and a Hunter 4.0 student, oh yeh, there will be some differences. but for an average Joe, its matter of getting the job, Columbia grads may get in easier than some one from St. Johns. For the same job, they will not pay you much more just because you are from the ivy. Especially for the lower level stock brokers, they get a base pay and after that it is your performance matters. Do you think on the get go they will put you in charge of an 1 billion dollar IPO?</p>
<p>As far as investment banking concerned, you will need a lot of experiences before they will put you in, the quota is going to kill most of the ppl that is why the attrition rate is so high. I have a friend who was offered a job in Smith Barney small business IB div. and she was told after 6 month, you are suppose to produce 6 million dollar closing per year, or else you are out. If you made it, it is like 200K/year.</p>
<p>wow that’s a harsh job environment for investment bankers. which companies on wall street hire financial analysts? do you know from what colleges the major wall street companies recruit from? (other than ivies and stern)</p>