<p>According to their website, students have a "nearly 100%" acceptance rate into their top choice business schools. Yet they're the only Ivy not listed by J.P. Morgan for on-campus recruiting. What's the deal?</p>
<p>I-banking isn’t the only career path for MBA’s. So there you have it: evidence that you should pick schools and programs based on what your goals are and what fits with you rather than some arbitrary ranking system or because its an ivy. </p>
<p>You shouldn’t ask this board you should ask the HR guy at MS. HR is another career path btw.</p>
<p>Elite banks and consulting firms have traditional schools (very few for some firms) at where they recruit at. These schools usually have strong business connections through out the decades (i.e. Wharton, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, Yale, etc.). If they are satisfied with the people they are getting at those schools, it’s unlikely they would spend the extra effort to add other schools to the list.</p>
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<p>It just struck me as odd that a top school sending students into top MBA programs wouldn’t be on that list, considering they make time for Fordham and Rutgers.</p>
<p>“nearly 100% acceptance rate into their top choice business schools”</p>
<p>I doubt it. Not even Harvard can boast of such claim.</p>
<p>^ Exactly what I was thinking. If that means every kid who wanted to go to HBS/GBS/Wharton, even by self-selection, got in, then I went to the wrong undergrad.</p>
<p>Dude, i’m biased for sure, but have a look at grad school placement in general coming from Brown. They are extremely, extremely successful when it comes to placement and students getting in to their first choice. I obviously can’t explain the phenomenon but it is just a perk of Brown. Obviously HYPSW etc have their advantages, especially in finance/business, but Brown is definitely a leader when it comes to placing kids in HYSW Business, Law, and Medicine.</p>
<p>In the MBA Class of 09 at Harvard, out of 891 graduates the top listed undergraduate colleges were:</p>
<p>Harvard (64)
Stanford (15)
UPenn (12)
MIT (12)
Cornell(11)
Yale(10)
Duke(10)
Berkeley (7)
Michigan -Ann Arbor (7)
North Carolina (7)
Dartmouth (6)
Virginia(6)
Georgetown(6)
Columbia (6)
Texas(6) </p>
<p>Forgive me for extrapolating without reason, but I think it’s safe to assume there were more than 6 applicants to HBS from Brown last year. </p>
<p>I’m not trying to bash the school at all; rather I think it’s a fantastic school that provides a solid education. But to claim that ANY school has a near 100% acceptance rate is downright ridiculous.</p>
<p>^ In addition to that, I see many Brown grads being turned down at Berkeley grad/postgrad applications. A friend of mine informed me that more than 10 Brown grads applied to Berkeley’s EECS postgrad program just last year alone, and no one from them got admitted. Ouch! There’s no one from Brown at the MS Financial Engineering at Haas yet some Haas people I know told me there were Brown applicants for the said program. I’m sure they don’t do very well at Stanford postgrad schools either.</p>
<p>Having said that, Brown is a fantastic school for undergrad. But I won’t go to Brown if I have admissions from other ivies.</p>
<p>Brown gets plenty of recruitment… Most of the BB recruits there… Also, a lot of the online lists really aren’t that accurate. Banks hosted plenty of info. sessions for NU students during recruitment and we’re not necessarily on their online list. Don’t rely on that stuff.</p>