@urbanslaughter I have no idea how LinkedIn does its studies, or if someone took linkedin data and tried to made a study using it, or whether such a study could be reliable at all (I’m in a high end legal job and I’m not on linkedin).
Anyhow, I’m not knocking any of these schools. I was just going by what the supposed insiders say at places like Wall Street Oasis and Poets and Quants, places where they never seem to be able to stop discussing “which schools are real IB targets.” They are worse than we are on CC.
Of course, Middlebury and Wellesley would both provide a great education and a chance at those jobs.
Technically speaking, the phrase “target school” refers to a posted list of colleges or universities (usually on a company’s website) of scheduled on-campus visits. Relative to their size, LACs have an impressive number of alumni working in front office positions who will travel, often at their own expense, to conduct interviews, collect resumes and generally shepherd students through the application process. That kind of networking is just as valuable as being a target school.
@penngirlpending The Twin Cities, just 45 minutes away, provide a very vibrant and dynamic business environment, with several Fortune 500 companies. It’s not Wall Street, but it’s hardly lacking in opportunities for internships or jobs to build your resume.
Rankings aren’t everything. For example, it could be that a lot of Williams students choose to go somewhere else because they want to, but Wall Street recruiters still recruit there. I think Williams is still a good choice for Wall Street, along with Amherst, Middlebury, Swarthmore, and maybe also Haverford.
They certainly aren’t. Nor should they be when the college makes it easy to research who recruited when and where. October is a big month for Wall Street i-banking and management consulting OCRs and judging from the footprints left on their calendars, there’s no question that Amherst smoked Williams in 2016:
