<p>Good day,
This is Temitope from Nigeria.Can anyone please try to tell me what to do in regards to my appointment that is not going through?Each time i tried to click on the summit botton,Its always showing this erros Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14' </p>
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<p>/Econsular/user/make_submit.asp, line 323 .Can anyone try to advise me further on necessary steps to be taken.</p>
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if you think the recruitment focuses change that much you are wrong, it's already been stated that consultant recruiting patterns are very similar to investment banking recruiting patterns
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<p>Huh. So by reasonable extrapolation, you'd also use that list to "prove" that Michigan is more highly recruited than, say, Columbia in investment banking, and I'm the one that's wrong? You are funny. :)</p>
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I too have seen Duke perform better than Northwestern or Michigan. Just my personal experience.
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<p>Sorry slipper, but according to elsijdfl, internet links trump real-world experience. :p</p>
<p>the list is a reasonably accurate guideline for getting a feel for the relative position, thanks for quoting the phrases that i used when i said "change that much" and "very similar" to accentuate the fact that i said that, though.</p>
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the list is a reasonably accurate guideline for getting a feel for the relative position
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<p>What are you basing that on? Really, I want to know. You've admitted you have no experience in either consulting or investment banking. If you think the list is an accurate guideline for the relative placement of schools i.e. which are "better" in recruiting than others, you must have had some preconceived notions on the subject. Where did those come from?</p>
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oh you mean so generalizing one personal experience and extrapolating it to an entire industry/country/etc. is not a smart thing to do?
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<p>Hmmm, so you are comparing your generalization of India as a "white country" based upon seeing one "white person" (which, btw, is probably the most idiotic generalizations ever written since the internet was created) vs. the collective observations about investment banking from many of the most experienced investment bankers on this site?</p>
<p>Here is a friendly tip: do yourself a favor and quit while you are ahead and save yourself further embarrassment. :)</p>
<p>gellino, it was a bulge bracket firm, but I don't know how many analysts were in the whole class. I knew mostly the people who made it to my department.</p>
<p>I wasn't involved in the intital stages of recruiting there; I did interview a lot of the people who made it to final rounds in my department though.</p>
<p>It felt like I interviewed the entire Brown economics department for a few years there. And they all had humongous GPAs. Maybe because Brown students can drop courses anytime? (I remember wondering about this at the time)</p>
<p>esdfl, please explain to me why Duke would be less recruited at then NU and Mich when its students are stronger?</p>
<p>And Alexandre, no undergraduate measure will put Duke below Michigan or NU. Duke students are superior on average. SATs, feeding into the top professional schools, national merit scholars, winning things such as rhodes scholar, even alumni contribution Duke wins against Mich and NU by a pretty large margin.</p>
<p>Being better statistically does not make the institution better...or the opportunities availlable to those who seek them. I am talking about the quality of the university. In other words, individual students will find the same quality and opportunities at Duke as they would at Michigan or NU.</p>
<p>well, yeah, I guess the opportunties are there for all students. However, I'm saying the STUDENTS themselves that attend Duke are better statistically.</p>
<p>Thethoughtprocess, that's to be expected given the fact that NU has 8,000 undergrads and Michigan has 24,000 undergards (compared to Duke's 5,000 or so undergrads).</p>
<p>thoughtprocess, ur really an insane person, like u are obsessed with duke's selectivity, give it a rest</p>
<p>look at how far that will get u one day</p>
<p>just a lil anecdote, realize this, for every duke grad that ends up at harvard law, there is another that ends up at a non top 25 or 50 school</p>
<p>one of my best friends, sister went to Duke undergrad, law school Brooklyn Law School (not even a top 50 law)</p>
<p>his brother, a duke grad, mba to NYU Stern, which is great, but not a top 5 or top 10 program, and yes, i did ask him where his bro applied to, and he didnt get into Kellog, Wharton, UChicago, or Columbia, he was left with Duke Fuqua (no surprise) and Stern</p>
<p>i know 3 graduates from Cornell's Human Ecology School (with an SAT average of maybe a 1350), Columbia Law, Duke Law, and UVA Law</p>
<p>I agree with thoughtprocess. In my opinion Duke is slightly better than Northwestern and better than Michigan in all areas relevant to undergrad. I'll leave it at that.</p>
<p>Slipper, one cannot measure the quality of an undergraduate institution as accurately as you seem to claim possible. In some ways, I know Duke is better than Michigan and in other ways, I know Michigan is better than Duke. Overall, I'd say they offer their undergrads roughly equal opportunities. What we can do, with a degree of accuracy, is express our opinion of which school better fits our ideals.</p>
<p>Alexandre, I base my opinion on graduate placement, selectivity, endowment per undergraduate student, alumni giving, and other "undergraduate factors." Its been my (and a few other notable posters on this site) that there is just as meaningful (IMO actually a bigger gap) a difference between Michigan and schools like Amherst, Duke, Dartmouth, Williams, Penn, Brown, and Swarthmore as there is between those schools and HYPS. And I think Northwestern is halfway between Duke and Michigan. I think we've both eloquently expressed the rationale for our opinions in the past, but I wanted people reading this to know that your opinion is not fact.</p>
<p>Of course not. I never claimed my opinion is fact. I keep my opinion to myself. But ranking a university solely on statistics, as you do, is not feasible.</p>
<p>haha simabjune, I'm insane because I'm pro-Duke in my college confidential posts? simbajune, what good does a personal anecdote do on this site? I bet theres lots of bums who graduate from Harvard too...your experiences in your personal life are irrelevant compared to the whole body of real information actually available.</p>
<p>It is pretty clear that Duke students are stronger than NU or Michigan's students, I just keep posting ,what I see as fact but others don't. Anyways, its not MUCH better but the gap between HYPSM and Duke is smaler than the gap between Duke and Mich. Thats based on numbers. I'm not saying Mich and NU aren't top schools, just that saying the students are as good as the ones at Duke based on most relevant measures is short changing Duke.</p>