<p>Money4life - man i feel like an idiot, my bad.ld </p>
<p>johnadams2 - very few of those guys from princeton got into pe right out of college (they could have gotten in after a stint in ib etc). But in terms of college to PE, essentially only Wharton and Harvard kids are actively sought. I’m not trying to rub this in, it’s just that I thought money for life was a princeton kid being a ****** (which he is not) and i responded accordingly. But i did say 5 times on wall street, and that is more or less right. </p>
<p>bluewatermelon - you should have come to wharton, just saying. Ha, actually i know a few people at Princeton. Out of the 5 i know 2 were like this dude and the rest were just totally awesome and smart. I’m sure you’ll find humble people there. </p>
<p>I did my own research on a few firms like KKR and the 5 to 1 ratio held. The cc user who compiled her table may be right though, i dunno.</p>
<p>Wow!! This is funny. I needed some entertainment. People actually think this way? Glad I don’t attend and did not apply to an Ivy. As a low-income student, I really don’t want to imagine a campus where, not only do people flaunt money/wealth like they do here, but have inflated egos. Luckily, many at Emory, have deflated egos do to the fact that they are Ivy rejects/couldn’t afford it after admission. Both ways can be annoying. </p>
<p>Good luck with that grade deflation (actually we could use some of it here now, average GPA getting a bit close to 3.4. Not good). Given that you will go to Princeton, you should be willing to work hard. And 35% As is appropriate. As a science major, it’s rare to see close to 20% in the A-range for many/most courses, but I’m not complaining. I’ll also let this thread remind me that I am looked down upon by at least some Princeton students. Wow!</p>
<p>Of course I read everyone’s replies, squirtle! It appears as if they think that everyone at Princeton wants to be an ibanker! gaspyy. Like I said, Wallstreet has died!</p>
<p>platore, the numbers speak for themselves. Princeton has Penn undergraduates beat in terms of numbers of professionals at the top Private Equity firms by 50%, on a per student basis. The fact that the Princeton graduates take a longer route to get to the Private Equity firms, as you suggest, implies that the more senior professionals at the Private Equity firms are from Princeton when compared to Penn.</p>
<p>It is what it is.</p>
<p>Total Professionals* per Undergraduate Senior Class Student x 1000
University of Pennsylvania - 21.6
Princeton - 30.8</p>
<p>I’m afraid that I now have to agree with the above poster’s assessment. </p>
<p>I think we’ve all been fooled and believe it to be very unlikely that this poster is an incoming Princeton student or that he or she was accepted to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford and MIT as he or she says.</p>
<p>We’ve seen this before and the whole point appears simply to make trouble and leave bad impressions.</p>