<p>How is vandy for ibanking recruiting?</p>
<p>Students interested in I-banking generally major in Economics and minor in Managerial Studies (Finance, Accounting, etc.). Bulge-Bracket Banks (GS, Merrill, MS) do recruit on campus. There is a generally a two-week period where the I-Banks/Consulting Firms give informational sessions and later on in the month a week dedicated to interviews.</p>
<p>how much pull does it have on the east coast? wat would be better on Wall Street - Vandy or Berkeley?</p>
<p>Berkeley. But, if you get into Cal, you really need to work hard so you can get into the Haas School of Business. Don't be fooled by Berkeley's west coast location...They're probably a top 10 feeder school onto Wall Street.</p>
<p>It's alright. Among southern schools, Duke places better and Emory probably does as well. I'm not sure how it compares to UVA.</p>
<p>Ok, so I registered just to answer this thread, because the people above me have no idea what they are talking about. I am a Vandy graduate who went through the on-campus process and has a job iwth a top 10 ibank in New York. Firstly, Duke and UVA place better than Vandy, but no way Emory does. In all of my super days and during my internship, I only met one kid from emory.</p>
<p>As far as Vandy goes, we get decent, but not stellar recruitment. Firstly, the banks that usually recruit here are BoA, ML, GS, Wachovia, lehman, Suntrust, DB and a bunch of mid-market banks. They interview on campus, but they interview 12-24 people for like 3-4 spots. Usually, from what i remember, it always was like the same 20-30 kids interviewing for all the spots, so you need to be pretty good to get an interview. By pretty good, I mean a 3.7+ in econ, or a 3.3+ in engineering. taking acct classes is a must. Also, unless you have something pretty cool on your resume, it will be really hard to get an internship without prior financial experience.</p>
<p>So based on all that, is it possible to get the coveted ibanking job from vandy? Absolutely, you just have to work very hard, as it won't be handed to you. Is it as easy, as it would be from Harvard or Wharton? Absolutely not, it requires a lot more effort, because fewer people are hired</p>
<p>I think the above poster is incorrect. Emory has more alum in NYC and a top undergrad bschool. Vandy does not, it places better for pre-med though.</p>
<p>Top ugrad business school is an oxymoron. Lehigh also has a top 20 school, simply because very few of the top universities have ugrad business schools. Just because Emory has one doesn't mean much</p>
<p>Your information about Emory having more NYC alums is facetiously inaccurate. According to the Emory website, its alumni in the NYC chapter is shy of 3,000 and its LA chapter is 1,200. Vanderbilt, on the other hand, has almost 4,000 alumni in NYC and over 2,000 alumni in LA.</p>
<p>You're also comparing apples and oranges with your claim that Emory has a "top undergrad bschool." According to your logic, Emory must be better than Chicago and Northwestern in terms of Ibank recruiting. False. Vanderbilt, Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, and other better schools than Emory do not have undergraduate business schools. At these schools, the emphasis is on theoretical economics, a key foundation for any bschool student. </p>
<p>How about doing your research before making ignorant comments?</p>
<p>Hey avant-garde, take it easy there. Emory is a decent school. </p>
<p>Yes, top schools without undergraduate business programs do get recruited into i-banking positions (Harvard, Northwestern, Chicago, Columbia, Vanderbilt), but the competition to get into those programs is a lot tougher from these schools than from a business school at a place like Univ of Virginia, Michigan, Berkeley, or even Indiana.</p>
<p>The reason is that any major out of the top schools can be considered a "qualifier", while at the other schools, the focus is almost exclusively on those who went the b-school route.</p>
<p>Thus, out of a class of 400 at McIntire (UVA), for example, maybe 90 will go into i-banking versus out of a class of 1200 at Harvard (the entire class), I'm guessing maybe 100 will go into i-banking.</p>
<p>Take Indiana--they had 56 in last year's Investment Banking Workshop there--and the placement rate was 100% into i-banking. Add in another 10 or so who weren't in the program that still got into i-banking and you can see the number is fairly large--but then one must remember that Indiana graduates 750 business students per year--but 7,000 regular graduates. Still, if you compare that to Harvard, both schools are placing about equal percentages (8-10%) per year into i-banking overall (that is, if you compare just the business school at Indiana with the entire class at Harvard). And I'll tell you for a fact that getting into Indiana's business school is easier than getting into Harvard's regular program.</p>
<p>Also, there are a few other undergraduate business schools besides UVA that place even an even larger number of students into i-banking each year than Indiana--NYU (Stern), Michigan (Ross), Georgetown, and Berkeley, for example.</p>
<p>Now it is true that the reason that the rates given above are equivalent is probably related to all the other opportunities available for a person who graduates from Harvard (going onto law school, top entrepreneurial jobs, politics, overseas service, top-level marketing, consulting, etc.), but still--what I'm saying here (and the point the poster was making) is that there are various paths to the plum jobs--and not everybody has to go to a place like Vanderbilt, Columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, or even Harvard to get into one.</p>