Getting into Wall Street/Big Finance

Career Opportunities & Internships Investment Banking
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<p>Hey! </p>

<p>Which colleges will a person be most likely to gain connections, get recruited or simply look impressive on the app for any wall street job? (Internship at firm, Investment Banking and other financial firms) </p>

<p>I've heard that Harvard is the best one. </p>

<p>And that the Ivies are close--but does this include Brown, Dartmouth, Colombia, UPENN and Cornell (in terms of getting an investment banking job) ? </p>

<p>Does the University of Chicago, Duke, Stanford have nearly as much viability as the Ivies? </p>

<p>If any of you know other colleges that help with wall street/big finance, please list them. If you have any general comments on getting a Wall Street job, again, please list them.</p>

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<p>If you go to any of the schools you listed, you should have an easy time finding an interview for recruitment. </p>

<p>I think the most recruited schools are Harvard, Wharton, Princeton, and Yale, but almost any Ivy (or equivalent, like Stanford, Duke, MIT) should be fine as well. Just make sure to keep your GPA and ECs up.</p>

<p>If you are fortunate enough to get into a few of these schools, and have to pick one, I would look at other factors when making the decision. Recruitment shouldn’t be the biggest factor, although admittedly, northeast schools place a lot better in NYC than schools which are relatively further away.</p>

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<p>This topic has been discussed repeatedly. Do a search.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/investment-banking/459445-best-undergraduate-college-investment-banking-hedge-funding.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/investment-banking/459445-best-undergraduate-college-investment-banking-hedge-funding.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I think in terms of recruiting, the ranking is something like
Harvard/Wharton
Princeton/Yale/Stanford</p>

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<p>Does the university of chicago have any place here? and its econ school?</p>

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<p>I think Penn is number one for finance, then Harvard.</p>

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<p>any top 10-15 school like UChicago will get recruited, but not nearly to the same extent as Wharton, Harvard, or Princeton</p>

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<p>JHU is top 10-15 (13 this year) and the recruiting is not as strong as Duke/Brown. It gets lots of resume drops, but few campus visits. I would advise students to look beyond the rankings, since some schools have low ranks but high levels of recruiting and vice versa.</p>

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<p>Also, you should realize that your interests may change over the course of your college career. If you end up not wanting to do finance/i-banking, it would be good to go to a school with solid exit opps in other areas of your interest as well.</p>

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<p>“Does the university of chicago have any place here? and its econ school?”</p>

<p>UChicago is a target, but it’s generally agreed that it’s on the tier of Northwestern, a tier below Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia, and two tiers below Harvard, Wharton, and Princeton.</p>

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<p>Stern is also a target, I’d believe on the tier of Northwestern, and UChicago, simply because of their proximity to Wall Street.</p>