Target Schools For Investment banking

<p>What are some schools that could be considered easier schools to get into (while still being target schools) for investment banking?</p>

<p>Harvard
UPenn
Stanford
Yale
Princeton
Duke *
Columbia *
UC-Berkeley *
Dartmouth
Georgetown *
Northwestern *
Cornell *
Virginia *
Brown *
MIT
Michigan *
NYU **
UCLA **
Texas-Austin **</p>

<ul>
<li>- hard schools to get into.
** - slightly less selective than the others.</li>
</ul>

<p>Tough question. The I Banks typically like the schools that are hard to get into. I’d add many of the top Liberal Arts Colleges to RML’s list. </p>

<p>An easier school is Rutgers. Its business school has recently had a very good placement record. If you can’t get into business as a freshman apply to a different college there and transfer. It is a risk though, you will need good grades. On the other hand you won’t get into I Banking without the grades anyway, unless you have some connections, great ECs like sports or are a great interviewer and very aggressive.</p>

<p>Hmm, being a student with a fairly good resume (grades, scores, etc.) I should be able to get into Georgetown and Berkeley, maybe Duke. Thanks for the help.</p>

<p>Indiana University has an incredible banking pipeline. Through on campus recruitment, there is a network well established that helps students break into wall street. Keep the option open. The Kelley School is an up and coming B-School.</p>

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<ul>
<li> Harvard</li>
<li> Stanford, Penn-Wharton</li>
</ul>

<h2>- Princeton, Yale, MIT, Columbia</h2>

<ul>
<li> Duke, Dartmouth, U. Chicago, Northwestern</li>
<li> Georgetown, NYU-Stern, Caltech, UC-Berkeley, Williams, Amherst</li>
<li> Michigan, UVA, Cornell, Middlebury, Vanderbilt, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Emory, UNC, UCLA, USC, Pomona/Claremont McKenna, Notre Dame, WashU</li>
</ul>

<h2>- Carnegie Mellon, Boston College, Colgate, Lehigh, Bowdoin, Hamilton, Rice, UT-Austin, Tufts, Wake Forest, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia Tech</h2>

<ul>
<li> Maryland, BU, Villanova, Haverford, Davidson, Washington & Lee, Colby, George Washington, Hamilton, Syracuse, Ohio State, Penn State, W&M, U. Miami, SMU, Trinity, Richmond, Holy Cross, Florida</li>
<li> Fordham, SUNY-Binghamton, SUNY-Geneseo, CUNY-Baruch, Delaware, Colorado, Lafayette, Rochester, Loyola Maryland, Northeastern, Bucknell, UConn, Rutgers</li>
</ul>

<p>^^Haha. And who are you?</p>

<p>Yeah I definitely disagree with timetodecide12.</p>

<p>Here is an improved list of target schools that BBs recruit from( feel free to make suggestions)</p>

<p>Super Top-tier: Harvard, Wharton
Top-tier: Duke, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell AEM, Princeton.
Second Tier: MIT, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Williams, Cornell non-AEM, UPenn CAS, Brown
Third Tier: UMich Ross, Georgetown, Northwestern, Amherst</p>

<p>The above schools are schools that will all give you a very good shot at banking. As long as you maintain a high 3.7+ GPA and have great ECs you have a good shot at I-banking from any of the above schools (although a Wharton student has better chances than a Northwestern student :))</p>

<p>Eh. I would put Princeton in the super top-tier, then put Brown and non-AEM Cornell in the third-tier. I would also put MIT, Yale, and Chicago all in the top-tier. Stanford is kind of tricky since not many students going there are interested in investment banking and are more mgmt consulting/entrepreneurship focused. According to my UChicago friend, the school’s BB IBD recruiting has really accelerated in the past few years and nearly all the major Wall Street banks recruit there significantly now, compared to just 5-10 years ago.</p>

<p>sprite - I think you’re missing a lot of the top LACs, and in that sense timetodecide is more accurate. Also, many of you will be surprised at how strong the placements are from Rutgers Business School.</p>

<p>I would not rank Stanford that high for banking…it’s actually quite an uphill battle getting a job at a NY office because of all the logistical issues. Neither of the banks I’ve worked does on campus interviews there for NY, whereas they’ll send people even to schools like Notre Dame.</p>

<p>Thanks for given me a list of school which getting into <a href=“http://www.idfc.com/capital/index.htm”>Investment Banking</a>.</p>

<p>I disagree. Cornell non-AEM should probably be at top-tier. I’m a Government major with no business or econ background doing banking. I know a handful of other non-business/non-AEM kids also headed to wall street this summer and for full time as well. In my experience, if you can present yourself as a smart hard-working candidate, that is knowledgable about the macro-level economy and is eager to learn more then you’ll get a job if you’re from a top-tier target.</p>