<p>Vassar will give you a great education, but it definitely lags behind the top schools in terms of placing people in top wall street positions. A school like NYU Stern or northwestern is equally difficult to break into, but will place much better at financial firms. I’m saying this after being through wall street recruiting cycles. I will also likely be working on wall street next year, so I have some perspective when I say that few top notch companies send their best divisions to Vassar’s campus. You’ll have great divisions at second tier companies and top notch companies sending second tier divisions to Vassar. Obviously some Vassar students break into top divisions at top firms, but these rarely recruit on campus and that exemplary student got it independent of whether they went to Vassar.</p>