<p>Hey i just wanted to know that which one of the three was best for a person to get recruited in a bulge bracket Investment Bank.</p>
<p>wow good question I'm curious to find out too... just for curiousity's sake</p>
<p>i really dont think it matters. they're all the cream of the crop schools; you're basically splitting hairs. what will ultimately matter more than if u went to harvard or princeton is whether you know your stuff when it comes to i-banking. i have heard/read many accounts of how hard it is to get into a bulge bracket i-bank.</p>
<p>quick, what is 41 x 39?</p>
<p>you should be able to answer that in less than 5 seconds at your interview if you really know your $h*t.</p>
<p>i may not have first-hand experience, but i think most people can find through due diligence that as long as u come from an ivy, u got a good as chance as any to get into i-banking.</p>
<p>so if u were admitted to all 3 where would u go</p>
<p>Wharton>Harvard>Princeton in terms of IB recruitment</p>
<p>But as krazyk has said, when it comes down to those schools it doesn't really atter as much as how you perform in the interview. I know a student at Princeton with a 3.4 that got an offer as a summer analyst for Lehman and Morgan Stanley. However, if I HAD to choose between those I would go to Harvard.</p>
<p>I'd imagine that Wharton might get you into the industry a bit easier. However, in terms of overall career advancement, Harvard might be the superior choice.</p>
<p>i agree with leo Penn > Harvard > princeton</p>
<p>What is a "bulge bracket" i-bank?</p>
<p>i'd go with harvard. it has the name and its campus is absolutely amazing.</p>
<p>I picked Princeton's unique "ORFE" major... however, you can't go wrong with either of the 3. </p>
<p>In retrospect, Wharton has the best name for undergrad business school... but, ORFE at Princeton doesn't limit me completely.</p>
<p>Bulge Bracket = the leaders in the industry. Although they are not clearly defined, they would probably include GS, MS, Lehman, Citigroup, Merrill, and maybe Credit Suisse.</p>
<p>I would say Wharton is the best for IB, CLOSELY followed by HYP.</p>
<p>for business undergraduate, wharton is best
but overall i think harvard>wharton>princeton</p>
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<p>1599.</p>
<p>Honestly, this is the simplest form of arithmatic you learn in elementary school.</p>
<p>lol, i never expected anyone to answer my simple math question, and thought for those that did, ahem, that they tried to do it in their head for 2 minutes before giving up and breaking out a calculator, only to post up the answer later saying that "it was the simplest arithmetic they had ever done".</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>but that's incredibly easy to do in your head, I mean 40 x 40 = 1600, - 1 = 1599...</p>
<p>so like 13 x 11 = 143, same logic</p>
<p>I think that works for things like that</p>
<p>I guess I'm slightly biased because I go to Princeton, but I've seen the career services senior-plans survey, and they're pretty damn impressive. Amnesia mentioned ORFE, so here's a statistic for you all:</p>
<p>Last year, 12% of ORFE majors joined Goldman Sachs. Not just any bulge bracket firm, but Goldman Sachs - the big one. Of course, there were others who joined PE shops that I'd say hold even more prestige than Goldman, such as Blackstone and Lazard, as well as people who joined hedge funds such as D.E. Shaw.</p>
<p>And this is just one major. Econ - if for no other reason than the fact that it's bigger - sends even more people into many of these places.</p>
<p>My point is not that Princeon > Harvard or that Princeton > Wharton. It's just that Princeton sends so many people into finance (65% of all graduates that go to work do so in either i-Banking or consulting) that whether or not you get that position at Goldman Sachs won't depend on which one of these schools you chose, but on how good you are.</p>
<p>There is absolutely no difference between those schools.
Harvard=Yale=Princeton=Wharton=Columbia</p>
<p>Ok I understand there's no difference in the Ivies. What about Stanford? How would they rank with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Wharton or Columbia?</p>
<p>I would say Harvard=Yale=Princeton=Wharton=Stanford=MIT>Columbia</p>
<p>No trust me,
it's Harvard=Yale=Princeton=Wharton=Columbia</p>
<p>-Stanford is lower because its far away on the other side of the country
-MIT isn't included so much because the vast majority of fin industry jobs still don't need engineers. (amazing for quantitative jobs oc)
-Columbia is very high up there simply because of location. </p>
<p>****But yeah those 5 still only give a minimal advantage over all the other top schools</p>