<p>Wesleyan, Colgate, Swarthmore, and Amherst?</p>
<p>Among these where is it strongest? Weakest?</p>
<p>How do they stack up against Cornell?</p>
<p>I'm shopping around for schools to which I can transfer (current freshman @ public uni).</p>
<p>Amherst>Swarthmore>others
These LAC’s are not known to be IB feeders. Williams, probably equivalent to Cornell, is much better in this regard.</p>
<p>what about duke and uchicago compared to the ivies (apart from hyp) i got into both :D</p>
<p>In general I’ve found Duke > UChicago, however some people here seem to have a different experience with UoC than I have had.</p>
<p>^True. Duke beats Chicago. I’m going to be on the east coast, granted, but there are multiple Dukies in my intern class and zero UChicagoans. There are also a handful of Dukies doing S&T and Capital Markets as well. No UChicagoans. I believe this is fairly consistent across most banks (more Dukies than UChicagoans per class).</p>
<p>For LACs: there were actually surprisingly more LAC kids in my class than I expected. This is across banking, capital markets, and s&t, but I saw Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Hamilton, and Kenyon on the intern list.</p>
<p>Here’s another question. Is there any disadvantage to attending Cornell’s ILR school as opposed to the College of Arts and Sciences?</p>
<p>^ I’d argue the complete opposite. I’d say that ILR students have a much stronger advantage as they have the ILR network (which has a good 10 pages or so of alumni in the past few years who’ve gone into banking) and are often specifically targeted for recruiting (HCM will often only recruit at ILR or only half of their interview spots reserved for ILRies, which is a great entry opportunity for a Freshman or Sophomore). </p>
<p>On the other hand, Arts students have only the general Cornell network, which ILRies already have access to. </p>
<p>Also, the curriculum for an ILRie is MUCH less restrictive than the Arts and Sciences one (few requirements out of major), which allows you to take a few more classes that will give you an edge in internships.</p>
<p>Hmm, good to know. I was worried there might be a negative perception there considering ILR is so much easier to get into.</p>