<p>Duke (Econ. major)
UVA McIntire
U Mich Ross
Georgetown McDonough
NYU Stern
Cornell
Dartmouth
MIT
Brown</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>In the end, the reason why schools become “target” school is because they have strong alum representation and great yields from offers to acceptances.</p>
<p>I tried to rank these programs and really found it difficult to do. All of these programs will give you the opportunity to do banking, given you do well in school and take leadership roles on and off campus. Personally, I find it hard to believe that someone who hasn’t even gotten into college yet is already determined to be a banker…</p>
<p>I would just say from my experience, UVA seems to be less of a target than the others. UMich is sometimes less of a target depending on the firm. Even so, both the firms get solid recruitment, so if you’re a good candidate and have a good resume, you can get hired from any of these schools really.</p>
<p>Thanks! My top choices as of now are Cornell, Stern, Gtown, and Duke</p>
<p>I really like Gtown and Duke based on everything else (location,campus,ect.)</p>
<p>But I feel like Cornell/Stern/ maybe Dmouth would provide opporitunities beyond Gtown, ect. and I dont want to hinder future chances</p>
<p>edit: I am not set on banking, but if it is something I may do, I would like my school to provide that chance in case</p>
<p>I really dont know how C-Revs can say that McIntire or Ross is not a top target, thats just absurd…
Furthermore, your assumptions about Cornell/Stern are correct, although i do not feel like your opportunities will be limited at any of the schools you listed. </p>
<p>The one concern I do have about Stern is how much responsibility students have to take on early in college in order to be competitive for jobs. At Stern, you are in the center of global enterprise and students are encouraged (almost forced) to take on internships early and do not get to enjoy college as much as say Cornell or Dartmouth…To put it into better perspective, to be competitive at a place like Dartmouth students will have maybe 1 internship beforehand and great leadership experience. To be competitive at Stern, since you are in NY and can intern while in school students will have 2 sometimes 3 internships before junior year and great leadership experience… This makes the recruiting process fierce and a lot more competitive because banks will only take soo many students from one school in a single class…just something to think about</p>
<p>Yeah, that is something to consider also.
I am visiting all of them this summer. (I am a junior)
I will probably know which I like best then.
As long as all of the schools are targets and I can get in if I work hard, that is fine with me.</p>
<p>I’m not saying they aren’t a target, I’m saying that I think in general the other schools get more attention than UVA does.</p>
<p>Georgetown gets a ton of recruitment, and so does Duke, the opportunities will be there if you want to take them.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the responses!
Btw, for Gtown, is MSB with a finance concentration ideal for ibanking?</p>
<p>Finance is the typical major in MSB, its pretty easy to double major so people often pair it with Accounting or International Business. But like most places, they also recruit economics, math, etc.</p>
<p>MIT (quants)/Dartmouth
Duke
Stern/Cornell
Brown
Mich/UVA/Georgetown</p>
<p>^^Dont pay much attention to the list above, they are clearly based on opinion and not fact. As CRevs and I have told you, all the schools you listed place well, just work hard.</p>
<p>I dont know why h5mom would place MIT first, maybe b/c of US news rankings…idk. MIT places very few kids in banking and in S&T, the desks that have the highest MIT representation are Interest Rate Products (agencies/mortgages/treasuries/exotics) and Commodities (futures/derivs). Which, funny enough, are the most profitable desks at GS. It has nothing to do with the level of recruitment at MIT, just a matter of the students having other interests (engineering focused)</p>
<p>While CRevs still thinks GTown places well (i agree) its no where near UVA McIntire. All the elite Boutiques go there as well as Top PE firms (BX, Apollo, SLP), just look at their recruiting schedule and look at GTown. I assure you, you will be impressed like i was when i first saw it.</p>
<p>P.S. I have no affiliation to UVA I go to Cornell so i am not biased, just calling it like i see it…</p>
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<p>I would actually agree with this list, though I would put Duke on the same level as Stern/Cornell. I’m almost inclined to drop Stern to the Brown level. IMO Stern gives you opportunities because it is in the city and you can build a more impressive resume for when you apply for jobs later in UG, but personally I don’t feel it is as strong of a target when direct recruiting is considered. </p>
<p>Based on people I’ve talked to I feel that for how strong of a target Stern is considered to be, it’s not as equally represented in internship programs as other school of its tier. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>However, like others have said, if you do well at any of these schools you will stand a fair chance and have your opportunities. You’ll just have to do better at the lower targets (primarily the bottom one, I’d say the gap between the others is far smaller).</p>
<p>“MIT (quants)/Dartmouth
Duke
Stern/Cornell
Brown
Mich/UVA/Georgetown”</p>
<p>This list looks accurate. Duke deserves to be ahead of Cornell on this list.</p>
<p>^^Yes very credible, coming from the 2 posters who have never worked a day on wall street…</p>
<p>Except she made her career on Wall Street. . .</p>
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<p>I made it very clear to cite where my information was coming from, and I hope people would be able to differentiate between the advice of a 30 year expert in the industry and someone who openly claimed that this was personal anecdotal evidence. That said, any evidence is useful evidence, and I leave it up to people to use the information however they want to. </p>
<p>Also, to my knowledge, hmom5 and her husband both have decades of experience with both MBA programs and the financial world.</p>
<p>What hmom5 has posted has generally turned out to be very true. There’s no doubt that she knows what she is posting.</p>