<p>Are there any public Maryland schools that are 'targeted' by IB + Banking firms? </p>
<p>I know that R. Smith School at UMCP is visited by some IB firms.
I'm looking for more info. relating to schools that are less known, such as Univ. of MD at Balt. County (UMBC), UMUC, and Goucher College (Private).</p>
<p>None of them really.</p>
<p>Bump…
Does anyone have real insight into this serious issue: that there are few public schools represented in IB.</p>
<p>Did you think I was just messing with you? If you are talking about actual banking (FO work) then as far as I know none of the BBs hire from those schools. Maybe you’ll find some boutiques/MM firms, but I have no knowledge on that point.</p>
<p>UMCP is probably recruited for back office positions, not ibanking, and I’ve never even heard of the other schools you mentioned. Sorry, but C-Revs answer was accurate. Seeing investment banks on the recruiting calendar of a school does not mean they are coming to recruit for front office positions.</p>
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<p>It is what it is–an industry that focuses on very few schools.</p>
<p>So IB is a field where only the elite go too… Micheal Moore was right to create a doc on IB Crisis.</p>
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<p>Have you looked at who attends top colleges lately? Most have half or more on a high amount of financial aid. They have significant numbers of first generation and low income students. The very top ones even have initiatives for the middle class. While indeed some rich kids sneak in, it’s fewer every year.</p>
<p>There is no doubt that Ivy League schools are opening up, but IB is still dominated by these schools. There are more ‘normal’ students + prospective IB analysts at state schools or less competitive private schools.</p>
<p>What do you mean “normal” students? I don’t quite follow your logic.</p>
<p>why would anyone want to hire “normal” when they can have the best?</p>
<p>True… ‘Normal’ is a bad word choice. There are students who are just as capable as Ivy League Students who do not attend a top 10 school. Their success is unfortunately hinged upon what school they went… i.e. not a HYP school.</p>
<p>When you can pick among the best at Ivies, why would ANYONE take the risk of taking some state-school (excluding Michigan-Ross and UT ) kid, who is probably an unknown quantity?</p>
<p>With Ivies, who basically act as a pre-selection mechanism for you, the worst you are gonna get is someone who got straight A-'s in high school instead of straight A+'s. With a state school kid, not only is there the question of quality guarantee, there is the question of psychological suitability; i.e., whether having gone to a non-prestige school could cause mental imbalance in a super-elite environment.</p>
<p>And once you happen to have a lemon in your office, it’s incredibly pernicious because any sort of class or social discord or disconnect is going to cause enormous problem.</p>
<p>Check out Jerome Kerviel. He’s the French equivalent of the state-school kid.</p>
<p>Herrsque:
Your argument is flawed. A potential employer looks at all aspects of a candidate. GPAs, E.C.s, and work experience are all factored into the first position a college grad applies too.
I know someone who went UT-Arlington and got a IB job at a smaller bank. Its about character, not where one goes to school. If that is truly how IB firms operate, then its just sad…</p>
<p>there are more than enough candidates with good character, grades, ec’s, and work experience at targets. why go elsewhere, where the likelihood of finding qualified applicants is significantly lower? recruiting resources are finite.</p>
<p>if you want to do ib, go to a target. if you want to stay in md, go to hopkins, which is probably more of a semi-target, but will still enable you to get your foot in the door if you are good.</p>
<p>birdman, seconded.</p>
<p>by the way, the reason JHU is such a semi-target is probably because all the (non-athlete) i-banking-type kids (i.e. well rounded, EC’s, leadership, etc) are all probably mad screwed by the grading system at jhu, which is INSANE.</p>
<p>i assume there’d be some recruitment (if only minimal) out of College Park.</p>
<p>In any case, if your looking to stay in the area but want to go to a target school, I’d say you should look right across the border at UVa.</p>
<p>College Park, as far as I have heard, is for operations, not banking.</p>
<p>By the way, this discussion is a tad ridiculous. There is no such thing as classifyng targets by state. Maryland-DC is a region, and the only way you can look at this the right way is by looking it at the DC-region basis, which means G’town and (more Southern) UVA & UNC.</p>
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<p>Huh? Your whole argument is they only hire from the ivies.</p>