will i get a good job after vassar ? (important)

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what happens within the 4 years is MORE IMPORTANT. If you came out of any top business school in the country that is a target school for what you consider “good jobs”, with a high gpa, and NO work/internship experience, you will not get the “good job” that other classmates will or other students from other schools will who all have significant and relevant work experience. A SCHOOL DOESN’T give you or get you a job, YOU do.
There is no unlimited number of “good jobs” out there. Wherever you go, even if it’s penn, you will be competing with your classmates. No company with “good jobs” hires 100 percent of all students of a given school’s major.

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<p>this tells the OP absolutely nothing, and is factually incorrect. Your school does actually make a huge difference in where you get a job, especially in finance. Companies target a few schools where they interview on campus and will hire kids from, if the company does not recruit on campus they will scarcely consider interviewing a kid. Your internship and work experience again is directly connected to the school that you go to, you interview for Soph and Junior year internships on campus and then for full-time.</p>

<p>How do I know this? I’m at Columbia and some pretty mediocre kids here (think gpa= ~3.0-3.2) managed to land jobs that will pay a base salary of 60-70k before bonus. kids with a 3.4-3.5 have landed jobs in investment banking at Barclays, Morgan, JP Morgan etc. Even a couple of top consulting firms have hired kids this year who look average on paper but are stellar interviewers and actually very smart people in real life. The investment bankers will likely earn over a 100k in their first year out of college after bonus. This is the same at Penn, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and a few other schools, but it is restricted to a few. </p>

<p>At Vassar you will have to be the 4.0 student who’s captain of a varsity sport to land these jobs, big big difference. When an equivalent firm didn’t recruit on Columbia’s campus, they barely interviewed anyone even though they had dozens of qualified Columbia applicants applying through their website. Firms that target certain schools are forced to recruit on campus, they are forced to interview X number of kids, and they often send Alumni back to interview students so there’s already some connection. They also have a relationship with the career center. Your chances of landing a high paying, prestigious job in finance are maximized by going to a top school (that’s not to say you’ll be unemployed after Vassar). </p>

<p>While many people on this forum have a strong distaste for finance, and believe the industry is dying, it still by a long shot pays the most straight out of college. Only Google and Apple can match salaries, but those are only a handful of very competitive firms.</p>