top LACs compared to Ivies?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I am looking at these schools: Carleton, Pomona, Williams, Grinnell, Columbia, Upenn, Dartmouth. </p>

<p>I know some of the schools offer completely different undergrad experience :P but i think i will be able to adapt to diff environments/atmospheres. just want to know how far will the schools let me go after i graduate, like job placement/grad school placement(business schools in particular).</p>

<p>Oh and i am interested in econs and math. hoping to do business/finance in the future/grad school.</p>

<p>I heard that for LAC grad to enter business field, the best way is to find a good biz school and get a degree? how far is this true?</p>

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<p>For finance I'd rank them as such:
1) Wharton
2) Dartmouth,Williams, Columbia
3) the other ones</p>

<p>You need to land a job before MBA, and the above list is how I'd rank how good the school are at placement.</p>

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<p>Hmm i am kind of aware of the rankings, but just wanna know how huge the difference there is, among those schools.</p>

<p>Anyway, thanks for the reply and bumps!</p>

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<p>Why no Amherst?</p>

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<p>Oh okay i am also looking at schools like amherst, but i just list williams since they shd be identical in job placement/grad school placement. Well most of the schools are reaches for me if i apply for a large amt of financial aid, and most of them are match if my family can pay full-fees. therefore i am evaluating how far will these schools get me, in order to decide how much to pay for each school.. Thanks for the concern though, JCCort!</p>

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<p>No problem</p>

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<p>Any other info?</p>

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<p>FlyShow: These should help to somewhat answer both your questions regarding professional school placement and finance recruitment:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ibankingoasis.com/node/5768%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ibankingoasis.com/node/5768&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This is a list of summer analysts at a major bank (posted by a summer analyst). Many summer analysts are hired full time, so it should be telling about overall school placement.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This is placement into top law/biz/med schools - obviously you are most interested in biz, but I couldn't find a list for just biz placement.</p>

<p>You might consider adding some more schools similar to Dartmouth or Williams to your list (such as Amherst). You'll see that LACs place very well.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the llinks!!</p>

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<ol>
<li>Columbia, Upenn, Dartmouth (these are the best Ivies after HYP)</li>
<li>(SLIGHT almost insignificant drop) Williams, Amherst, Brown, Cornell</li>
</ol>

<p>DROP
3. Middlebury, Pomona, Colgate</p>

<p>DROP
4. Carleton, Grinnell</p>

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<p>I'm sure it varies by firm, but, according to this poster Wesleyan, Colgate and NYU tied with 1 intern each and there was no mention of Pomona or MIddlebury at their firm:
<a href="http://www.ibankingoasis.com/node/5768%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ibankingoasis.com/node/5768&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Yeah, and keep in mind that Wesleyan and Colgate are a fraction of the size of NYU</p>

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<p>If you read down further, you'll notice that the original poster says: </p>

<p>
[quote]
"gshell - good catch, Northwestern should have one up there. Also, Boston College and Middlebury both have one and Georgetown two."

[/quote]
</p>

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<p>johnwesley: Pomona was grouped together with Claremont/McKenna in the "target" group.</p>

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<p>^good catch. :)</p>

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<p>thought Carleton is in league with Midd pomona colgate..</p>

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<p>Pomona is definitly up with Amherst and Williams (and Swarthmore)</p>

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<p>in terms of ibanking placement, according to the ibankingoasis.com, carleton, midd, pomona, colgate are similar</p>

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<p>also, in the interest of accuracy, the same site lists two more NYU internships under semi-targets, for total of 3 (btw, that's the blogger's assessment of the college's -- not necessarily the industry's) but he chose to separate them because they didn't graduate from Stern (hey, it's his blog, he can do what he wants.)</p>