<p>Do top Wall Street firms regularly hire from Columbia undergrads? How does recruiting at Dartmouth compare with recruiting at Penn or Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Yes, wall street firms hire from all the top schools in the U.S., and send recruiters to all of them, including Dartmouth and Columbia.</p>
<p>I haven't gone through recruiting yet, and I don't know anyone at Penn, so I can't answer your second question.</p>
<p>Dartmouth does incredibly well on Wall Street with 5/7 of the most elite banks recruiting on campus. Dartmouth is right after HYP and Wahrton (along with Columbia) and both will do exactly the same in terms of helping you get a job on the street. Penn is also highly recruited but personally I've seen that Dartmouth might have a slight edge due to its alumni network and not having to compete with Wharton internally. Dartmouth's legacy on Wall Street is among the best in the country.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is one of the top handful of colleges in terms of placing graduates into Wall Street positions. Undergrad econ is very strong. It's right up there after HYP.</p>
<p>On a related note, Dartmouth does very well at producing future CEOs as well. According to Susan Caminiti's article, "Where the CEOs went to College" published in Fortune Magazine, these were the top colleges at producing Fortune 500 CEOs among their undergraduate alumni:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Yale 43 </p></li>
<li><p>Princeton 32 </p></li>
<li><p>Harvard 25 </p></li>
<li><p>Northwestern 19 </p></li>
<li><p>Dartmouth 15 </p></li>
</ol>
<p>---- (gap with 10-15 others)</p>
<p>UPenn, including Wharton: 3</p>
<p>no stanford?</p>
<p>It's farther down the list (but yes, on it).</p>
<p>This is why I continually think Dartmouth is underranked or under-explored. Dartmouth excels at placing its grads into whatever path they choose, moreso than most schools outside of HYP.</p>
<p>I agree, slipper.</p>
<p>The experience you'll have at Dartmouth and the kind of person you'll be when you come out of this school can't be replicated at any other school, no exceptions.</p>
<p>I agree, Half baked.</p>
<p>I'm so excited about all of this</p>
<p>Can't wait for the fall:)</p>
<p>PosterX, could you post a cache or a screenshot of the article that you cited? According to the TIMES article, Harvard graduated 3, Duke 2, and Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth each graduated 1 F50 CEOs. None of these men or women had Northwestern as their Alma Mater. I realize that this is a list of Fortune 50 CEOs, but 47 Yalies in F500s compared to one in the F50s is a bit excessive isn't it?</p>
<p>You previously stated on another thread (actually another person did) that those numbers were extremely outdated (pre-1995), but even so, I am still curious to see the original article.</p>
<p>I couldn't agree more with half baked's comments.</p>
<p>why? I'm curious, what does dartmouth provide that princeton or brown doesn't?</p>
<p>There's a camraderie that is created because of Dartmouth's geographic location. There's such a happy culture of people who are thrilled to be there and are thrilled you're there as well and part of the same group.</p>
<p>My husband was a '72, and my son will be an '11. The husband of a friend, who's an '82, recently learned that both husband went and son is going, and got so excited he said he HAS to meet my husband and son. So we're having them for brunch soon. </p>
<p>When I hear of people who went to my alma mater, I'm just, "Oh. What a coincidence." But I don't arrange social occasions around it!!</p>
<p>Princeton actually is very similar to Dartmouth in its alumni loyalty and strength of community. Dartmouth has a long legacy with recruiters and its loyal and powerful alumni make sure their firms actively recruit in Hanover, moreso than many other schools. The Dartmouth community goes beyond most schools, its rare and honestly amazing.</p>
<p>Dartmouth tends to focus on doing things that matter to undergrads and it excels in this area beyond its peer institutions. It spends more per student than all the other Ivies on student resources and advising by a significant margin (COHE). It also gives its students real access to grants, study abroad programs, one-to-one classes, etc far more than the other Ivies (except Princeton which is similar). Its so normal at Dartmouth to have done things like start a clinic in Ghana, go on a study abroad, or do one-to-one research with a professor.</p>
<p>Slipper, I agree about Dartmouth. One minor point, however, Princeton is actually third in COHE support among the Ivies after Dartmouth and Yale. Among universities in general, Princeton is fourth after D, Y and Caltech. I would say that in terms of access to professors, funding to start health clinics, study abroad, one-to-one classes, etc., Yale is a little stronger than Princeton and equal to Dartmouth. Overall, I agree with you that you could easily argue D-Y-P are the "holy trinity" of undergraduate education (among the Ivies), not H-Y-P.</p>
<p>"why? I'm curious, what does dartmouth provide that princeton or brown doesn't?"</p>
<p>an anamorphic beer keg as a mascot :-) lets see ANY other school do that for you!</p>
<p>Poster you're right. Yale does have an incredibly strong undergrad focus and a very strong community. Its why Dartmouth, Yale, and Princeton have always been my favorite schools.</p>
<p>Really? I'm surprised Brown is not on that least. And I've heard a lot of complaints about the large intro classes at Yale.</p>