<p>You must also take into account the number of econ/IB-minded students at each school at how many out of this lot actually fair well.</p>
<p>For example, School X might have 500 Econ majors and/or potential IB recruits, and 50 are recruited while School Y might have 150 Econ Majors and/or potential IB recruits, and 30 are selected. On paper, School X sounds amazing because 50 of their students are making it big on wall street, but in reality, School Y is probably stronger.</p>
<p>There is no real way to figure this out. However, I think it’s safe to say that schools like Penn Wharton and NYU Stern, Harvard, etc are crawling with opportunists using the school to spring onto Wall Street, and maybe only a smaller proportion of the do so compared to, say, Amherst, where there are lesser seekers and, as a result, lesser recruits, but consequentially, better odds.</p>
<p>All-in-all, I think most elite schools have comparable amounts of recruitments for wall street in terms of ratio. Actual number representation will depend on the amount of qualified people per campus, which, in no way, reflects back up on the school so much, itself.</p>
<p>This was generally my point in mentioning some of the LACs that are consistently represented in IB analyst classes, if not in the sheer quantity of larger schools like Duke, Cornell, Georgetown, UVA, NYU (Stern).</p>
It should be pointed out that not all elite schools are targets for IB/consulting/etc., and some of them draw more big names to campus than others.</p>
<p>correct IBClass06.
Part of that is because many elite schools do not have a good amount of people even interested in IB.
The other part is that some schools just have many students applying for IB jobs, thus, setting a pattern of recruitment at that school i.e. Duke, Columbia, and NYU, etc
Schools like JHU and Rice are a lot less focused on IB or business as a whole than schools like NYU, Duke, Northwestern, etc. However, I find that there are still a pretty good number of alumni that go on to work on Wall Street, but most of them had that dream to begin with and are definitely in the minority on either campus.</p>
<p>I wasn’t saying the list was garbage because my school isn’t on there. I was saying that because I did a bit of research myself on this when I was applying to schools and found that your list is missing schools such as the higher end LACs and other ivies such as Brown, as well as schools such as UVA McIntire, and UC Berkeley(Haas). I also never saw much on Georgetown banking but that could have been because I didn’t research that school heavily.</p>
<p>FWIW, I’m working at a bank now and was checking out their recruiting documents they have on the company website. I don’t remember all the target schools, but one thing that stood out to me was that all ivies were included, with the exception of brown.</p>
<p>^
I disagree with that list, which seems to be an edited version of the one I posted earlier. Harvard, Wharton, Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, Duke, and Yale are almost universally agreed to be the top 7 schools for IB (with MIT roughly on par).</p>
<p>In my experience, UMichigan (Ross) is not remotely equal to Dartmouth. RML, you work in science and did not go to school in this country to have any perspective. Please stop misleading potential candidates with your ignorance. </p>
<p>Otherwise, I would agree with IBclass06 re: Columbia vs Dartmouth, although I’m not really sure it’s because of the D-Plan as much as tradition and the fact that NYC vs NH or not that more at Dartmouth are interested in IB.</p>
<p>your NYU example is irrelavent. Im talking specifically about Columbia which belongs in your aformentioned list. Clearly Columbia is a target it has one of the best econ/math programs in the country and has a world class MBA program that is better than Dartmouth (Atleast from Wall Street perception). Obviously we are speaking in terms of undergrad but i find it very difficult to believe that Dartmouth would do better than Columbia.</p>
<p>^
Add Duke and MIT if you expect to have credibility. Also, I would put Dartmouth above or at least on par with Yale for production.</p>
<p>Superstar- Do an internship at an IB, see where your classmates went, and then report back.</p>
<p>(Of course, I don’t think it’s been pointed out that this is somewhat moot for the time being. IB as we knew it is dead, perhaps for the long haul.)</p>
<p>Really? Will IB not be a viable option 4 years from now? If not, could you suggest any other similar career paths, in terms of the type of work you do?</p>
No, I’m not kidding. Although I agree that neither Duke nor Dartmouth is on the level of, say, Harvard or Wharton, they’re both arguably superior to Columbia and certainly Michigan. (No offense to either. I’m a big fan of Michigan.)</p>
I didn’t include every school on there… just a few that sprang to my mind.</p>