<p>As the subject line reads.</p>
<p>For consulting / finance, how does it compare to other institutions?</p>
<p>you won’t be disappointed by who shows up to interview</p>
<p>all of the big names, then many other niche and boutique players</p>
<p>Ya…traditionally Wharton and Harvard have the best recruiting among most financial groups.</p>
<p>It does very well with many of the larger companies (ie goldman sachs). . .it is also the only school that a decent number of P/E and hedge funds will recruit at</p>
<p>Nice - good to know.</p>
<p>What I’ve heard though is that only like 60 people will make the cut for GPA for Goldman Sachs, 15 will be interviewed, and it’ll go down to like 5 people.</p>
<p>True, it is the best investment banking firm out there, but that doesn’t strike me as a lot.</p>
<p>Longstreet: do hedge funds really recruit out of college?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/wharton/surveys/Wharton2009Report.pdf[/url]”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/wharton/surveys/Wharton2009Report.pdf</a></p>
<p>Last year 14 people accepted offers from Goldman. Also, that number doesn’t include people who had offers from Goldman and turned them down, and there was a 14% non-response rate in the survey, so the actual number is almost surely higher. It would be foolish of Goldman to take only 5 students from a school of Wharton’s caliber.</p>
<p>To answer your original question: recruiting for finance/consulting is the best at Wharton/Harvard, and I think most would agree that Wharton is unmatched for finance.</p>
<p>In short, very, very good.</p>
<p>Ya…and I believe Goldman Sachs took around 30 kids (around 30 kids accepted offers) the year b4.</p>
<p>Wharton has the best recruiting in the world. Period.</p>
<p>^^ Last year, Goldman almost took 40 kids. 36 to be precise and 50 from all of Penn together. That’s an amazing stat.</p>
<p>At basically every single bugle bracket bank, Wharton is the most represented school. It takes up just about half of all PE jobs and even more of the possible hedge fund jobs. In terms of job oppertunities, nothign touches Wharton.</p>
<p>I think this thread demonstrates precisely what’s wrong with Wharton. In a year where revelation after revelation about the filth and double dealing against clients by Goldman Sachs has shocked folks of good conscience and honest business people everywhere (and tens of billions of dollars of honest taxpayers’ money was used to bail them out after their high level Ponzi schemes collapsed followed by an ongoing criminal investigation), placement into Goldman Sachs is the axis on which Wharton’s self identity spins. It’s really very sad and tragic … and very, very Wharton.</p>
<p>But don’t forget about Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, JP, Morgan Stanley, McKinsey, AmEx, etc.</p>
<p>Goldman does not define Wharton.</p>
<p>its the best</p>
<p>Probably on par with Harvard.</p>
<p>it’s either same as Harvard or above from what I’ve seen.</p>
<p>I’ve got that song from Donald Trump’s Apprentice stuck in my head by reading this thread: “Money Money Money… Monneeeyyy.”</p>
<p>this recruiting refers to undergrad wharton right?</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, for undergrad recruiting for ibanking
Wharton>Harvard>>>Stern>></p>
<p>Note - I know that this is an old, bumped thread, but I feel like posting anyway.</p>
<p>From what I know, it’s very hard to make an absolute statement regarding whether Harvard or Wharton performs better for undergraduate recruiting. It’s safe to say that going to either school will provide you with a lot of opportunities to get your name out there, and you’ll be well-respected from either school. The rest depends on you - how intelligent and personable you are, what classes you took, what internships and extracurriculars you’ve had, etc.</p>
<p>Long story short, you shouldn’t pick Harvard over Wharton or vice versa because you think you’ll have better chances at recruitment at either school.</p>
<p>I think the recruiting calibers at Harvard/Wharton are a draw–some only recruit at Wharton, some only at Harvard. You would certainly be misguided to nitpick the differences without considering the totally different philosophies/experiences afforded by the two schools.</p>
<p>Recruiting is fantastic at PENN, not just Wharton. Companies come because of the Wharton name, but even when they are recruiting for “business” students, if your resume/GPA is good, you’ll get an interview. You’ll see plenty of people with physics, math, economics, political science, philosophy, psychology and even sociology majors going into consulting, private equity, hedge funds, investments, etc. If I remember right, roughly 43% of Wharton students got their offers through On Campus Recruiting, compared to 40% of College students.</p>
<p>If you look more deeply at the number of respondents, you will see that a little over 440 (80%) Wharton students identified as working full time, meaning that about 190 found their jobs through OCR. The College’s numbers are dramatically different, with just over 50% of respondents (600 people) identifying as having full-time employment, which means that roughly 240 found their jobs through OCR.</p>
<p>The short of this is that companies come for Wharton, but College students have just as good a chance of walking away from OCR with job offers!</p>