<p>Here are several uses of demographics in my context. Thats the problem with wikipedia, it gives you the tools, now you have to constructively use it lol.</p>
<p>Stanford’s demographics (in terms of student body state of origin) differs from HYPM</p>
<p>Do you have any numbers to put this in perspective? How many Tufts alumni are employed by specific firms compared to the total number of employees in the target category? Or, can you cite a related opinion from an authoritative source? Example: </p>
<p>According to Mr. Blankfein, “Sure, every couple of years Goldman hires somebody from a school like Tufts, usually as a favor to a personal friend, but we don’t even bother going out to these schools. 99% of the applicants just wouldn’t fit in. Besides, if you have a few billion dollars to invest, the first thing you look at is the resume of the kid giving you advice. If it doesn’t say Harvard or Wharton, the client comes to me personally with a lot of pain-in the-ass questions. It’s like being hauled before Congress all over again.” (laughter)</p>
<p>I’m not real enamored of the mixing of undergrad and grad alumni. So Business Insider, or whatever the pub or site was, did a lousy job of accumulating alumni.</p>
<p>I saw Bernanke listed twice, Swarzman of Blackstone also methinks, I saw W under Harvard?, Carly under MIT. W, we all know is best associated with Yale, despite never having read a book; Carly is a Stanford undergrad alum. </p>
<p>Bad job BI…</p>
<p>Edit: Also, I agree with the premise that a lot of these people esp people like Swarzman (sp?) of Blackstone not seeing the mortgage meltdown, and the financial mess teh country is in though.</p>
<p>if you want to account for all types of finance: (trading + banking + asset management + p.e. / hedge funds) caltanner has the tiers wrong they look more like:</p>
<p>other schools (like USC, JHU, Tufts, Middlebury etc.) will have a few top firms which target them, but these that I have listed, have their students poached into front office positions by most / all of the big firms.</p>
<p>some like Williams and Amherst will be very strong in investment banking but weaker in trading and asset management, MIT for example is stronger in trading / quant stuff, weaker in investment banking.</p>
<p>you really think Penn (other) is that high? I never encountered any Penn (other). But that was a long time ago. Also the places further away tended to have their grads parked in their respective regional offices, which was basically like outer mongolia as far as where the action really was. At that time. If I were doing this tier thing, then, i would move half of your tier t3 to “tier 3b- boondocks”,</p>
<p>And Stern did not often sniff the IB front office at the time, though their MBAs were well represented at the commercial banks. Now that there is no Glass Stegall I recognize everything’s different, but I wonder if the internal pecking order has changed that much.</p>
<p>But anyway, if they interview at your school, if you are good enough you have a chance to get in.</p>
<p>FWIW, in my department we had more analysts (ie college hires) out of Middlebury, Wellesley and/ or Smith than from most of your tier III.</p>
<p>Hasn’t this study been done before? Going by random people’s belief on this message board is not going to be accurate. Pretty sure Business Week or one of the other publications has done a proper ranking.</p>
<p>Of course, I am sure that there will be twenty more posts where people rank the t25 based on their own perceptions even though most of those posters do not work on wall street and have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.</p>
<p>I was just curious as to the interpretation. Because you are right, there are people who go into “operations” or something. Yet Tufts, I know, actually has Goldman recruiting for IBD. That’s not front office. And Jamie Dimon (CEO of JPM) is a Tufts alum (thus, I believe they recruit there too).</p>
<p>I think everyone would agree, however, that Wharton and Harvard are big target schools.</p>
<p>I think most people here are speculating. I doubt there are much reports out there because the game has changed a lot (not only from networking, but also the schools that are now becoming targets). The latest one everyone sites is that WallStreet Journal feeder school thing. But that’s from 2004–that’s like almost 7 years ago. Things have without a doubt changed. I have also read that a lot of kids from BYU get hired because of the discipline and ethics they have (males usually go on 2 year missions).</p>
<p>That being said, for people at Oxford or Cambridge, or some place outside the US, they probably would work in a london branch (or Mumbai, Hong Kong, etc.).</p>