Rate my college please?

<p>I'm considering applying to the following universities, could you please rate them out of 10 (or 100, whatever you prefer) in terms of recruitment (specifically Sales and Trading recruitments). Assume I'm pursuing a computer science/engineering degree.</p>

<p>Rice University
Northwestern University
Williams College
Drexel University (Business and Engineering program)
Brandeis University
Cornell University
University of North Carolina
Penn State
Arizona State
Ohio State
Purdue University
University of Minnesota</p>

<p>Also, do you know of any other colleges in the same league as the above ones (except Cornell) that have 'good' recruitments into S&T? </p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>

<p>Cornell, Northwestern, Williams. You may want to consider Colgate, no engineering but with CS, many alums in banking.</p>

<p>agree with above, the best schools on your list for S&T recruitment are </p>

<p>Cornell
Northwestern
Williams
Penn State (had 4 in my SA class from here, although 2 were in SEO which may of helped)</p>

<p>the rest will put you at a pretty significant disadvantage in terms of recruiting. If i were you and I was positive i wanted to go into S&T, (which i find it very surprising that you are since you are still a senior in high school) i would suggest taking another look at your list. To be competitive for junior recruiting season (keeping all else equal except the school you attend) i would remove all of the schools you have with the exception of the 3 i left above and add…</p>

<p>Maybe 1 or 2 more Ivies
Add UMich
UVA
Duke
Possibly BC (had about 9 kids in my GS S&T summer class)
NYU Stern
U of Chicago
Georgetown
Cal Berkeley
UT Austin</p>

<p>Thanks for the replies, oldfort, ixjunitxi.
I have added Colgate to the list, and removed Brandeis. Additionally I have added UMich to my list and removed ASU. I’ve left U Minn (caus I’ve already sent my application) and I’m leaving OSU, Purdue and Drexel because I’d like ~3-4 safeties on the list. Northwestern, Williams, and Cornell are all reaches. </p>

<p>Unfortunately my school allows a maximum of 12 applications so I can’t add any more colleges, I could try to transfer to the schools you mentioned, ixjunitxi.</p>

<p>Again, thanks a lot for the replies. I really appreciate it. =)</p>

<p>I think the above list is pretty good. Depending on what your stats are like, you may need one or two safeties. If you were able to get into UMich early then you could apply to more ivies (Dartmouth and Brown). You may also want to consider CMU for CS and swap out of Chicago. I think most Chicago graduates tend to go on to graduate schools.</p>

<p>Duke is fine if you want to sit through the most brutal grade deflation in just about the entire country. Maybe not nearly as bad as Chicago, but it’s definitely giving Chicago a run for its money. Same with Berkeley.</p>

<p>I am not familiar with Michigan, but I have heard that the process can be dehumanizing too.</p>

<p>Caveat emptor.</p>

<p>GPA is relative as well, especially if you go to a target school. You are compared to your peers, not necessarily kids from other schools.</p>

<p>I’ve decided to remove Drexel and replace it with either Georgetown or Colgate. Which one would you recommend?</p>

<p>Ignore the above post please. Georgetown has a Jesuit affiliation. =/</p>

<p>If you are either agnostic/athiest, you should not worry about Georgetown’s Jesuit affiliation. They do not force anything on you and from what other people have said on here, it really isn’t an issue. I can’t speak to the quality of their CS department vs. Colgate though.</p>

<p>Don’t write Drexel off so early. Students their have three different co-ops before graduation. The majority of these students end up working at a former co-op full time right after graduation. Even if you only use it as a safety school, it has an extremely successful engineering program. </p>

<p>Are you talking about a bachelors/mba program there?</p>

<p>I’m not agnostic/atheist. Though I’m not Christian either. I’m very reluctant to attend religious schools; I’ve faced discrimination in the past and I’d rather not go through it again.</p>

<p>revelations: I’m talking about the business and engineering program at Drexel. You say “a majority of these students”… are you sure about this? I know Drexel’s co-op program has several GS interns, but it would be quite surprising if a majority of them were actually employed by GS after graduation.</p>

<p>That’s a good point. I go to school in the university section of Philadelphia – Penn, Drexel, USP, and a few other schools are all intermingled. I’m not basing my previous statement on any formal study, but rather, through drexel alum that I know. </p>

<p>This isn’t a trivial number either. Looking at facebook friends now, 39 students who I know personally that ended up working at their co-op (which is not quite the same as being an “intern,” but I’ll spare you the semantics). ALL of the drexel alum I know found jobs in their respective fields after graduation. </p>

<p>As to your idea about GS interns – I’m sure most of them aren’t employed by GS. But there are 3 co-ops; 2 other opportunities to find a potential employer. It’s not like other schools where you intern for a semester, but rather, three extended employments. Like I said, you should consider leaving it on your list as a safety school.</p>

<p>For the sake of transparency: I do not go to Drexel :p</p>

<p>I would add UVA before georgetown and Colgate. Almost every firm goes there to recruit, bulge bracket investment banks and elite boutiques.
While I think that Drexel is a good school, i do not think it is a great school if the exit opps you are looking for are banking or S&T. There was one kid from Drexel at GS this year and last year for S&T ( same kid) and he was quite good. However, i do not think the GS actively recruits on there campus (they may have a resume drop, not sure)</p>

<p>I’ve missed the UVa deadline. Was Jan 1. =/</p>

<p>I’m still not very sure about Drexel. I’d like to be EXTREMELY sure before I leave it on my list.</p>

<p>(Do you know of any other schools that are similar to UVa? UVa is definitely on the top end of my budget, so I can’t go higher than that if it’s a public university)</p>

<p>It’s entirely possible that Drexel isn’t the right place for you, even as a safety school. I misinterpreted your original post. If you’re only looking for sales and trading position (instead of a more direct science), then try the others on your list. (I thought you were looking for a good place for computer eng. that also provided the basework for a S/T type career.)</p>

<p>ixjunitxi brings up a good point that I should have emphasized (sorry!). Drexel has a great reputation in industry as a science and engineering school. It has a good business component for engineers. You might be more successful at a more business oriented school.</p>

<p>Georgetown is better recruited than UVA. Honestly, other than the prohibition of condoms being sold on campus, I don’t even notice the religious affiliation. Feel free to PM me if you are concerned.</p>

<p>If you are trying to decide between Georgetown and Colgate, and you don’t feel you have enough match or safeties, then Colgate is an easier school to get into than Georgetown. I understand you have 12 school limit. If you have good enough stats for NU or Cornell, you should be able to get into Colgate, but not necessary for Georgetown. I went to Colgate, and I know how well Colgate alums are represented around NYC area.</p>

<p>The rather inconvenient fact, of course, is that you get a lower GPA at a grade-deflated school for the same amount of work; rather, you get a lower GPA for a much greater amount of work.</p>

<p>The natural instinct when getting crappy marks is to work harder; the marks you actually end up getting, in the end, reflects that.</p>

<p>So it’s actually a mud sandwich both ways; you work harder, and get crappier marks. And no, it’s all about “comparing with peers.” A 3.2 at Duke is not going to be competitive with a 3.7 at Stanford (where marking is somewhat inflated), or a 3.7 at BC. And I have known quite a couple Merit Scholars getting brutally shafted at Duke in terms of marks, which is actually a great school. And no, just like only a minority of Duke pre-med will actually go to a top med school, so the same for finance.</p>

<p>Compared to peers applies mainly to OCR</p>