<p>How does Vassar do in recruiting for careers on wall street (like consulting)?</p>
<p>i’d like to know this as well.</p>
<p>i’ve heard their finance program isn’t the strongest</p>
<p>Vassar has a finance program? That seems very strange. Can you have a finance program when you don’t have a business major?</p>
<p>my mistake. there is no finance program.</p>
<p>I’m an economics major planning on going into consulting and I have to say our economics program is VERY strong, one of the top among liberal arts colleges and inferior to only a few top university programs (Uchic, MIT), if at all, depending on what you’re looking for. We have a growing presence on Wall Street (and a huge one in NYC in other fields) that are pulling tooth and nail to get more Vassar grads out there. To the comment about our finance program not bring the strongest, as was said above, we don’t have a finance program, and I’m fairly certain no strong LAC in the country offers a finance major. How it tends to work once a Vassar (Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, Colgate, etc.) grad enters the finance industry with an econ degree is that at first the Wharton (Stern, etc.) grads know flashy excel tricks and a bunch of knowledge that helps in the beginning, but then the econ grads “catch up” and get ahead through superior critical thinking skills and become CEOs in large numbers.</p>
<p>Vassar does very well of placing econ majors on Wall Street. I go to Duke, which has a larger presence on Wall Street, but that is most likely due to the larger student body and different interests among the student body (Duke seems a bit more straight-laced when compared to the more alternative students at Vassar, so Wall Street appears to me to be more sought after by duke students). My older brother went to Vassar and majored in Econ (and loved it there) which made my decision to choose Duke a very difficult one, but I’m sure that there wouldn’t be much of a difference in job prospects if I had decided to go to Vassar. My brother was offered a job by Morgan Stanley but turned it down to instead go to law school and many of his friends who were econ majors work at prestigious firms (with good positions). So from the experiences of those I know who went to Vassar and majored in econ, Vassar is well respected on Wall Street.</p>