Hello! I am a D1 soccer recruit but don’t want the D1 commitment. So I’ve been looking at D3 schools with good business programs, So far Bentley and Babson have stood out. The coaches are heavily recruiting me after I expressed interest. I’m a big party guy and I know college is what you make of it socially. MY QUESTION: What are some D3 schools, it’s fine if they are liberal arts, that have strong finance, international business, and/or b. managment programs? It’s fine if they are liberal arts. I have looked at Hobart, seems like a good place. Basically I want to be doing well out of college and i’m willing to put in all the hard work plus i’m a smart kid doing well at the BBN private school in Cambridge. I just need a place where big investment/banking firms recruit at. Help will be very appreciated!
Test scores and GPA? Home state?
BBs don’t recruit at either Bentley or Babson. Refer to this list of schools for target institutions where banks actually do recruit at:
- Harvard
- Stanford, Penn-Wharton
- Princeton, Yale, MIT, Columbia
- Duke, Dartmouth, U. Chicago, Northwestern
- Georgetown, NYU-Stern, Caltech, UC-Berkeley, Williams, Amherst
- Michigan, UVA, Cornell, Middlebury, Vanderbilt, Brown
- Emory, UNC, UCLA, USC, Pomona/Claremont McKenna
- Carnegie Mellon, Boston College (CSOM), Indiana (Kelley's IB workshop)
Don’t settle for anything less if you can help it.
Thanks. ACT 26, GPA 3.0, Massachusetts. Not insane stats, i know, but I am ranked in the top 150 recruits in soccer nationally plus I go to a nationally ranked private school. Wow! I hear Babson and Bentley are heavily recruited? I’ve been recruited by Cornell… I can use soccer for middlebury and maybe go there. My college counselor told me doing well at Babson or Bentley= great job quick…
No that’s a complete lie. You’ll get 1-2 BBs at most with a smattering of MM recruitment. If you want to work for the big players in finance (GS, JPM, MS, CS, Barclays, etc) you need to go to a target.
Try retaking the ACT to get at least a 30.
- You've probably shared too much info to maintain anonymity.
- If you are considering LACs, you should probably major in Economics.
- So you've talked to the the coaches at Cornell and Middlebury? Do they know your stats and are they ok with them?
If you can get in a NESCAC school take it and don’t look back.
Don’t plan your college choice on a few banks.
I have worked in financial services in NY my whole career and the above post by janizary is only a half truth.
Use your soccer if you can in NESCAC or Patriot like Bucknell, Colgate, Holy Cross or Lafayette and grab one.
Did the Middlebury coach get a preread or mention a recruiting “band”? This is critical. At most NESCAC the lowest band, C, is a 28-29 ACT and coaches rarely ask for it.
Babson grads do get great jobs BTW.
@Janizary you don’t know what you are talking about.
A D1 school that is an easier academic admit with great Wall Street alumni connections is Providence College.
Bates, Hamilton, and Trinity College also have strong alum connections in financial services.
Post #2 needs to be sourced for it to have any value, especially since its demarcations are stated so assertively.
So majoring in economics at a LAC would get me into the kinda career I want? Whats middlebury like? My friends that go there tell me its pretty homogeneous in terms of diversity and is a boring area.
holy cross
Why HC?
^ Check the post history. HC has been the answer in about 4000 posts. Though in this case, the school actually does seem like it might be a good fit for you.
You can also refer to this post http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1206919-which-schools-are-targets-at-the-top-3-consulting-firms-bain-bcg-mckinsey.html
MBB and the big BBs recruitment patterns are very similar from campus to campus.
Middlebury is a great fit if your the outdoorsy type into hiking and skiing. It is a little homogeneous and a tad on the preppy side. Very attractive campus.
Have you visited any schools yet? Talked about your stats with coaches?
And yes to economics. It what LAC kids study if they want to go the Wall Street route. Mathematics study is also good for Wall Street if you have talents in that direction.
I’m an incoming freshman at a NESCAC (Tufts) and from extensive research and talks with alumni, it is a difficult school to break into finance. Ideally, Williams and Amherst are the go-to schools for finance within the NESCAC.
Holy Cross is Patriot League D1 but that conference is only technically D1.
OP, I will say it again. If the Middlebury coach has had your transcript pre-read and it came back “safe to recruit” your college search should be over in my opinion.
The recruiting process always entails a pre-read.
I’d disagree with the traditional assertion that Middlebury is homogeneous. That was true twenty years ago. Not so much today. Maybe homogeneous for elite schools. Also, it’s not only for outdoorsy types at all. But the rest seemed accurate.
@Janizary Sorry that is not correct. Your definition of finance is a handful of large banks that are miserable to work for. I work in private equity and we hire below NESCAC and Patriot in some cases. We pay more, there is no dress code and we discourage work after 7 pm.