Your kids will be fine.. college name doesn’t matter as much as dcum tells you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell me more about your kid that you are proud of that got 1100 sats after much study, or had a 3.1 w gpa and got a coveted job, or who went to Towson or U Dayton or Duquesne or kennesaw state or some school most people on this board don’t even discuss or consider.

My neighbors kid went to Duquesne. Did really well. Works in the Pittsburgh area still.

Depends on what you mean by "coveted job." My child is in the industrial part of engineering, not in the consulting side. 1100 SATs but is thriving in a college without a DCUM pedigree - published and award recipient for honors engineering project. Child has a job offer for after graduation starting at $80k in a small city, with a pension, great healthcare, and they will pay for the masters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What? ChatGPT was hallucinating and spitting out garbage? Horrors!

They hired tier 2 engineers I suppose

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jane Street is not accepting interns from anywhere else but HYPMS (possibly Duke, Penn and a few others)

According to chatgpt - Jane Street data
For Interns (2025 cohort, ~72 people)
Stanford: 6 interns
University of Chicago: 5
UC Berkeley: 4
Harvard: 4
Tied at 3 interns each: Cambridge, Yale, and six other schools






Note: MIT and Waterloo, though strong pipelines, had just 1 intern each in this particular group

Full‑time / Current Employees
MIT dominates (~76 alumni at Jane Street)
University of Cambridge: ~67
Oxford: ~62


Top North American schools among employees include (but aren’t limited to): Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton


In APAC: University of Waterloo (engineering interns), University of Hong Kong (APAC hires) also feature prominently

.

🧭 Summary Table
Group Most Represented Schools
Interns Stanford, UChicago, UC Berkeley, Harvard
Full‑time staff MIT, Cambridge, Oxford; Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton (NA)

Key Takeaways
MIT leads overall, especially for full-time roles.

For 2025 interns, Stanford and Chicago are top feeders.

Cambridge and Oxford have strong full-time representation, less so among interns.

Jane Street also pulls from strong public STEM schools like UC Berkeley, CMU, Waterloo, and UT Austin.

Jane Street focuses heavily on STEM-heavy campuses with strong math, computer science, and engineering programs. While brand-name universities dominate, they will still consider talent from top public and international STEM schools—especially during staff hires as opposed to internships .

TL;DR
Jane Street interns most come from Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, and Harvard. Full-time staff are mostly from MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, with strong representation from elite STEM schools worldwide. Yet you don’t have to attend an Ivy‑name school—outstanding performance from top STEM public or international schools can still land you a role.

This reddit poster seemed to have taken an even deeper dive on this issue. Interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/quant/comments/zhvqvn/universities_quant_feeders/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Yeah. This seems to more of an accurate representation. Several employers.

This as well

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering

This list, adjusted by Enrollment(tho they should have used Engineering/CS enrollment, not total) closely parallels our main recruiting targets with many ivies plus a few top publics in Eng.
It also overlaps with the Jane street list from the current intern that has MIT ivies and top publics, though JS is quant and we are tech consulting. Targeting can seem unfair but it is the most efficient way to get top talent. We have experience with the rigor of these schools. That being said there are many internships outside the top companies. Small companies can sometimes be better internship experiences. No panic needed if you are not at a school on all the lists. And realize that the competition within those schools is often fierce

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jane Street is not accepting interns from anywhere else but HYPMS (possibly Duke, Penn and a few others)

According to chatgpt - Jane Street data
For Interns (2025 cohort, ~72 people)
Stanford: 6 interns
University of Chicago: 5
UC Berkeley: 4
Harvard: 4
Tied at 3 interns each: Cambridge, Yale, and six other schools

Note: MIT and Waterloo, though strong pipelines, had just 1 intern each in this particular group

Full‑time / Current Employees
MIT dominates (~76 alumni at Jane Street)
University of Cambridge: ~67
Oxford: ~62


Top North American schools among employees include (but aren’t limited to): Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton


In APAC: University of Waterloo (engineering interns), University of Hong Kong (APAC hires) also feature prominently

.

🧭 Summary Table
Group Most Represented Schools
Interns Stanford, UChicago, UC Berkeley, Harvard
Full‑time staff MIT, Cambridge, Oxford; Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton (NA)

Key Takeaways
MIT leads overall, especially for full-time roles.

For 2025 interns, Stanford and Chicago are top feeders.

Cambridge and Oxford have strong full-time representation, less so among interns.

Jane Street also pulls from strong public STEM schools like UC Berkeley, CMU, Waterloo, and UT Austin.

Jane Street focuses heavily on STEM-heavy campuses with strong math, computer science, and engineering programs. While brand-name universities dominate, they will still consider talent from top public and international STEM schools—especially during staff hires as opposed to internships .

TL;DR
Jane Street interns most come from Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, and Harvard. Full-time staff are mostly from MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, with strong representation from elite STEM schools worldwide. Yet you don’t have to attend an Ivy‑name school—outstanding performance from top STEM public or international schools can still land you a role.

lol how's ChatGPT supposed to know this? Here is the real data for Jane Street 2025 summer interns in the NYC office, all roles included. This is the first-hand information from DC who is doing intern there now.
College Count
MIT 36
CMU 16
UC Berkeley 15
UT Austin 13
Stanford 12
Princeton 9
Yale 8
Duke 7
Harvard 7
Caltech 5
UChicago 5
Cornell 5
brown 4
Dartmouth 3
Gatech 3
NYU 2
Vanderbilt 2

Was missing a few colleges. Here is an updated list.

College Count
MIT 36
CMU 16
UC Berkeley 15
UT Austin 13
Stanford 12
UPenn 12
Princeton 9
Yale 8
Duke 7
Harvard 7
UIUC 6
Caltech 5
Uchicago 5
Cornell 5
Columbia 5
brown 4
Dartmouth 3
Gatech 3
UVA 3
NYU 2
Vanderbilt 2

The same usual suspects

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jane Street is not accepting interns from anywhere else but HYPMS (possibly Duke, Penn and a few others)

According to chatgpt - Jane Street data
For Interns (2025 cohort, ~72 people)
Stanford: 6 interns
University of Chicago: 5
UC Berkeley: 4
Harvard: 4
Tied at 3 interns each: Cambridge, Yale, and six other schools






Note: MIT and Waterloo, though strong pipelines, had just 1 intern each in this particular group

Full‑time / Current Employees
MIT dominates (~76 alumni at Jane Street)
University of Cambridge: ~67
Oxford: ~62


Top North American schools among employees include (but aren’t limited to): Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton


In APAC: University of Waterloo (engineering interns), University of Hong Kong (APAC hires) also feature prominently

.

🧭 Summary Table
Group Most Represented Schools
Interns Stanford, UChicago, UC Berkeley, Harvard
Full‑time staff MIT, Cambridge, Oxford; Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton (NA)

Key Takeaways
MIT leads overall, especially for full-time roles.

For 2025 interns, Stanford and Chicago are top feeders.

Cambridge and Oxford have strong full-time representation, less so among interns.

Jane Street also pulls from strong public STEM schools like UC Berkeley, CMU, Waterloo, and UT Austin.

Jane Street focuses heavily on STEM-heavy campuses with strong math, computer science, and engineering programs. While brand-name universities dominate, they will still consider talent from top public and international STEM schools—especially during staff hires as opposed to internships .

TL;DR
Jane Street interns most come from Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, and Harvard. Full-time staff are mostly from MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, with strong representation from elite STEM schools worldwide. Yet you don’t have to attend an Ivy‑name school—outstanding performance from top STEM public or international schools can still land you a role.

This reddit poster seemed to have taken an even deeper dive on this issue. Interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/quant/comments/zhvqvn/universities_quant_feeders/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Yeah. This seems to more of an accurate representation. Several employers.

This as well

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering

This list, adjusted by Enrollment(tho they should have used Engineering/CS enrollment, not total) closely parallels our main recruiting targets with many ivies plus a few top publics in Eng.
It also overlaps with the Jane street list from the current intern that has MIT ivies and top publics, though JS is quant and we are tech consulting. Targeting can seem unfair but it is the most efficient way to get top talent. We have experience with the rigor of these schools. That being said there are many internships outside the top companies. Small companies can sometimes be better internship experiences. No panic needed if you are not at a school on all the lists. And realize that the competition within those schools is often fierce

This is very specific to STEM majors and converting them (mostly) corporate jobs. A very specific type of school is the stepping stone for this path. Most of these grads will need to pursue a masters or higher immediately or eventually.

Many schools are very good for pre-med, pre-law, business school admissions, and public administration/public service (which I know gets trashed on this board, but still has competitive graduate programs).

Your undergrad matters less 5 years out and even less if you obtain a graduate degree. Graduate programs have a lot more nuance on recruitment than HR departments and the DCUM thought leaders .

[Anonymous]

So in summary, go to an Ivie or a Top Public specific for Engineering to land the first best job out kid college. Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So in summary, go to an Ivie or a Top Public specific for Engineering to land the first best job out kid college. Got it.

Unless you don’t want to be a quant? This thread took a weird turn where apparently that’s the only “top” job available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So in summary, go to an Ivie or a Top Public specific for Engineering to land the first best job out kid college. Got it.

Unless you don’t want to be a quant? This thread took a weird turn where apparently that’s the only “top” job available.

Depending on what you mean by top. Most students would kill to swap into Jane Street from MBB and Goldman Sachs. It’s like comparing Harvard and Boston College. Both are great choices, but if you’re a double admit, which one would you choose?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So in summary, go to an Ivie or a Top Public specific for Engineering to land the first best job out kid college. Got it.

Unless you don’t want to be a quant? This thread took a weird turn where apparently that’s the only “top” job available.

Depending on what you mean by top. Most students would kill to swap into Jane Street from MBB and Goldman Sachs. It’s like comparing Harvard and Boston College. Both are great choices, but if you’re a double admit, which one would you choose?

Plenty would choose MBB or Goldman. These are all different roles. They are not interchangeable for most people, except those lacking in direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So in summary, go to an Ivie or a Top Public specific for Engineering to land the first best job out kid college. Got it.

Unless you don’t want to be a quant? This thread took a weird turn where apparently that’s the only “top” job available.

Depending on what you mean by top. Most students would kill to swap into Jane Street from MBB and Goldman Sachs. It’s like comparing Harvard and Boston College. Both are great choices, but if you’re a double admit, which one would you choose?

Plenty would choose MBB or Goldman. These are all different roles. They are not interchangeable for most people, except those lacking in direction.

That’s false. JS NGs are paid at the similar level to Goldman’s MDs (more junior ones). Money is not the only factor but it can change things. It’s actually a consensus on Wall Street that sell side is on the lower end of the food chain relative to buy side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jane Street is not accepting interns from anywhere else but HYPMS (possibly Duke, Penn and a few others)

According to chatgpt - Jane Street data
For Interns (2025 cohort, ~72 people)
Stanford: 6 interns
University of Chicago: 5
UC Berkeley: 4
Harvard: 4
Tied at 3 interns each: Cambridge, Yale, and six other schools

Note: MIT and Waterloo, though strong pipelines, had just 1 intern each in this particular group

Full‑time / Current Employees
MIT dominates (~76 alumni at Jane Street)
University of Cambridge: ~67
Oxford: ~62


Top North American schools among employees include (but aren’t limited to): Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton


In APAC: University of Waterloo (engineering interns), University of Hong Kong (APAC hires) also feature prominently

.

🧭 Summary Table
Group Most Represented Schools
Interns Stanford, UChicago, UC Berkeley, Harvard
Full‑time staff MIT, Cambridge, Oxford; Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton (NA)

Key Takeaways
MIT leads overall, especially for full-time roles.

For 2025 interns, Stanford and Chicago are top feeders.

Cambridge and Oxford have strong full-time representation, less so among interns.

Jane Street also pulls from strong public STEM schools like UC Berkeley, CMU, Waterloo, and UT Austin.

Jane Street focuses heavily on STEM-heavy campuses with strong math, computer science, and engineering programs. While brand-name universities dominate, they will still consider talent from top public and international STEM schools—especially during staff hires as opposed to internships .

TL;DR
Jane Street interns most come from Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, and Harvard. Full-time staff are mostly from MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, with strong representation from elite STEM schools worldwide. Yet you don’t have to attend an Ivy‑name school—outstanding performance from top STEM public or international schools can still land you a role.

lol how's ChatGPT supposed to know this? Here is the real data for Jane Street 2025 summer interns in the NYC office, all roles included. This is the first-hand information from DC who is doing intern there now.
College Count
MIT 36
CMU 16
UC Berkeley 15
UT Austin 13
Stanford 12
Princeton 9
Yale 8
Duke 7
Harvard 7
Caltech 5
UChicago 5
Cornell 5
brown 4
Dartmouth 3
Gatech 3
NYU 2
Vanderbilt 2

Was missing a few colleges. Here is an updated list.

College Count
MIT 36
CMU 16
UC Berkeley 15
UT Austin 13
Stanford 12
UPenn 12
Princeton 9
Yale 8
Duke 7
Harvard 7
UIUC 6
Caltech 5
Uchicago 5
Cornell 5
Columbia 5
brown 4
Dartmouth 3
Gatech 3
UVA 3
NYU 2
Vanderbilt 2

The same usual suspects

UT Austin, Dartmouth, UVA, NYU, Brown stand out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jane Street is not accepting interns from anywhere else but HYPMS (possibly Duke, Penn and a few others)

According to chatgpt - Jane Street data
For Interns (2025 cohort, ~72 people)
Stanford: 6 interns
University of Chicago: 5
UC Berkeley: 4
Harvard: 4
Tied at 3 interns each: Cambridge, Yale, and six other schools

Note: MIT and Waterloo, though strong pipelines, had just 1 intern each in this particular group

Full‑time / Current Employees
MIT dominates (~76 alumni at Jane Street)
University of Cambridge: ~67
Oxford: ~62


Top North American schools among employees include (but aren’t limited to): Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton


In APAC: University of Waterloo (engineering interns), University of Hong Kong (APAC hires) also feature prominently

.

🧭 Summary Table
Group Most Represented Schools
Interns Stanford, UChicago, UC Berkeley, Harvard
Full‑time staff MIT, Cambridge, Oxford; Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton (NA)

Key Takeaways
MIT leads overall, especially for full-time roles.

For 2025 interns, Stanford and Chicago are top feeders.

Cambridge and Oxford have strong full-time representation, less so among interns.

Jane Street also pulls from strong public STEM schools like UC Berkeley, CMU, Waterloo, and UT Austin.

Jane Street focuses heavily on STEM-heavy campuses with strong math, computer science, and engineering programs. While brand-name universities dominate, they will still consider talent from top public and international STEM schools—especially during staff hires as opposed to internships .

TL;DR
Jane Street interns most come from Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, and Harvard. Full-time staff are mostly from MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, with strong representation from elite STEM schools worldwide. Yet you don’t have to attend an Ivy‑name school—outstanding performance from top STEM public or international schools can still land you a role.



The kids I know that landed at Jane Street or equivalent came from state schools: UMich, GTech, UT Austin, UMD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So in summary, go to an Ivie or a Top Public specific for Engineering to land the first best job out kid college. Got it.

Unless you don’t want to be a quant? This thread took a weird turn where apparently that’s the only “top” job available.

Depending on what you mean by top. Most students would kill to swap into Jane Street from MBB and Goldman Sachs. It’s like comparing Harvard and Boston College. Both are great choices, but if you’re a double admit, which one would you choose?

Most people would reach a complete halt in their career going into quant. Most people are not intelligent or skilled enough to lead a meaningful career in quant finance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jane Street is not accepting interns from anywhere else but HYPMS (possibly Duke, Penn and a few others)

According to chatgpt - Jane Street data
For Interns (2025 cohort, ~72 people)
Stanford: 6 interns
University of Chicago: 5
UC Berkeley: 4
Harvard: 4
Tied at 3 interns each: Cambridge, Yale, and six other schools

Note: MIT and Waterloo, though strong pipelines, had just 1 intern each in this particular group

Full‑time / Current Employees
MIT dominates (~76 alumni at Jane Street)
University of Cambridge: ~67
Oxford: ~62


Top North American schools among employees include (but aren’t limited to): Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton


In APAC: University of Waterloo (engineering interns), University of Hong Kong (APAC hires) also feature prominently

.

🧭 Summary Table
Group Most Represented Schools
Interns Stanford, UChicago, UC Berkeley, Harvard
Full‑time staff MIT, Cambridge, Oxford; Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton (NA)

Key Takeaways
MIT leads overall, especially for full-time roles.

For 2025 interns, Stanford and Chicago are top feeders.

Cambridge and Oxford have strong full-time representation, less so among interns.

Jane Street also pulls from strong public STEM schools like UC Berkeley, CMU, Waterloo, and UT Austin.

Jane Street focuses heavily on STEM-heavy campuses with strong math, computer science, and engineering programs. While brand-name universities dominate, they will still consider talent from top public and international STEM schools—especially during staff hires as opposed to internships .

TL;DR
Jane Street interns most come from Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, and Harvard. Full-time staff are mostly from MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, with strong representation from elite STEM schools worldwide. Yet you don’t have to attend an Ivy‑name school—outstanding performance from top STEM public or international schools can still land you a role.

lol how's ChatGPT supposed to know this? Here is the real data for Jane Street 2025 summer interns in the NYC office, all roles included. This is the first-hand information from DC who is doing intern there now.
College Count
MIT 36
CMU 16
UC Berkeley 15
UT Austin 13
Stanford 12
Princeton 9
Yale 8
Duke 7
Harvard 7
Caltech 5
UChicago 5
Cornell 5
brown 4
Dartmouth 3
Gatech 3
NYU 2
Vanderbilt 2

Was missing a few colleges. Here is an updated list.

College Count
MIT 36
CMU 16
UC Berkeley 15
UT Austin 13
Stanford 12
UPenn 12
Princeton 9
Yale 8
Duke 7
Harvard 7
UIUC 6
Caltech 5
Uchicago 5
Cornell 5
Columbia 5
brown 4
Dartmouth 3
Gatech 3
UVA 3
NYU 2
Vanderbilt 2

The same usual suspects

UT Austin, Dartmouth, UVA, NYU, Brown stand out.

UT Austin mostly because of their Turing program.

[Anonymous]

MBB are fake jobs for kids who didn’t hack it in their program. How is MBB even in this discussion? Their presentations may impress the leadership team at Callahan Auto Parts, but they’re hired as a CYA exercise by Fortune 500 execs too afraid to think for themselves.

The paycheck at management consultants can be big but it’s a wash out destination.