<p>How do Amherst and Williams stack up against a school like Dartmouth in Investment Banking? I imagine they do not place so well in private equity straight out of undergrad?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I don’t know LACs well enough to answer your question, but very few to no school places well in PE straight out of undergrad. Your best bet is to go through 2 years of banking then aim for a PE firm.</p>
<p>I would imagine so, but also schools like Midd and others that have a strong presence on the east coast are good for ibanking.</p>
<p>letmepass i agree with you i should have worded my question differently…i guess i should have asked how they network in pe. </p>
<p>but how do they do in ib placement out of undergrad at top firms?!</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Amherst and Williams on the East Coast, Pomona and CMC in the West. All four place well into top IB firms, and as I* have seen the very top students (i.e. multiple IB summers) have been able to get right into PE out of undergrad. </p>
<p>*I can only speak specifically for Pomona (and to an extent CMC) here, but I assume that it is similar at Williams and Amherst.</p>
<p>They are respected and place well on a relative basis but not like Dartmouth. the bottom line is that Dartmouth has the much bigger network on The Street and that matters. That Dartmouth is considerably bigger than these schools is of course a factor.</p>
<p>I will be attending Amherst in the fall as a freshman. I am also interning at Morgan Stanley this summer. Just from looking through the Amherst alumni directory I have gathered that there is a strong contingent of Amherst grads in banking, particularly at Morgan Stanley and Goldman.</p>
<p>From my experience in IB, IM, PE, HF, top 5-10 MBA class, the LACs that were most represented were:</p>
<p>Williams
Amherst
Wellesley
Bowdoin
Colgate
Middlebury
Hamilton
Colby
W&L
Wesleyan
Bates
Trinity
Bucknell</p>
<p>Granted, all my positions were East Coast, but haven’t met anyone from Pomona or Claremont McKenna but quick glance at Linkedin shows they’re out there too. Very few people from any of these schools have HF or PE as their first job out of school.</p>
<p>It seems like there are about three or four each year going into PE or HF from Pomona, although, in my experience, these are really cases where students did the work for themselves. Anyone working in PE straight out of undergrad (no matter where they are) didn’t just land there from school, they went above and beyond in the job search process. Those I know who have gone straight into HF were either masterful quants, or students with impressive resum</p>
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<p>Whoa gellino, how old are you? ;)</p>
<p>^ 30s. I started out in IB after UG and have been in a couple buyside jobs after B-school.</p>
<p>it varies by firm but i can say surely that williams and amherst are both well represented. wellesley also.</p>