<p>Monydad as a good point re: post-graduate education. </p>
<p>Also, speaking only from anecdotal experience, but confidentialcoll and liek0806 have a point. Even going to a top feeder school doesn’t garentee you a job, but it does tend to mean that you don’t have to be a super-star to be considered or even get a job. OTOH, NOT going to a feeder school doesn’t mean your doomed, but it might mean you pretty much DO have to be a super-star to get your dream job straight out of college.</p>
<p>I go to a small LAC a lot like Vassar. Not being into finances, I’m not sure how heavily recruited we are, but while we may be better than Vassar (maybe?), we’re certainly no HYP. However, I do have a friend (the only one interested in finance at all) who was offered several very prestigious and high paying jobs, some that I think he didn’t apply to through the school. But this guy was also the number two ranked student in the year (certainly number one in his job-related major), and had spent the previous two summer doing exactly the kind of work he was being hired for. So, it’s possible, but you have to be damned good. Or, alternatively, you can be willing to take a different job for a few years, and see where that leads you.</p>