Wallstreet Feeder Schools (Per Capita)
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Anonymous
I mean... Columbia does place better than Harvard... |
Anonymous
The only school in the US that competes with Harvard for finance placement is Wharton. |
Anonymous
That's exactly what that means lol. And the metric they used is entry level IB analyst roles. |
Anonymous
Isn’t that what the Wall Street list shows? It shows Columbia’s placement rate is stronger than Harvard’s. And in Silicon Valley, Harvard is a lesser school than Columbia. |
Anonymous
+1. Stop letting your HYPSM prestige obsession get in the way of acknowledging reality. A lot of schools, including Columbia, has a better engineering and CS school than Harvard, so it’s not even a surprise that they place better. |
Anonymous
Not a Harvard fan but nobody in their right mind would choose Columbia over Harvard. They might choose Yale, Stanford or MIT over Harvard but NOT Columbia. |
Anonymous
No affiliation with either schools, but her point was precisely that you don't have to go to Harvard for elite job placement, and I don't see how cross-admits have to do with anything. Why would a top-ranked ivy league college in NYC that's a 20-minute subway ride from wall street NOT have long-established alumni networks and place extremely well into Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley (whose CEO is also a Columbia alum)? You're delusional if you think otherwise. |
Anonymous
The hyp obsession on DCUM is really bizzare, especially from a group of people with no ties to any of those institutions and who mostly went to schools like UVA and second-tier LACs and only use the acronym to bash other schools. Keep crying! |
Anonymous
Parchment cross-admit data: Harvard 69% — Yale 31% Harvard 67% — Columbia Engineering 33% Harvard 84% — Columbia 16% Yes, it's undeniable that more people choose Yale over Harvard than Columbia, but the difference isn't as big as you make it seem to be. I guess almost 1/5 of cross-admits between Harvard and Columbia, and 1/3 for Columbia engineering, were not "in their right mind" when they made their decisions. |
Anonymous
The Harvard:Yale cross-admit ratio lol |
Anonymous
Plenty of people in their right minds might choose C over H for a variety of different reasons. Finance placement, however, should never be one of them. A strong, motivated student will have far more first-job finance options coming from Harvard than any other school (except arguably Wharton). |
Anonymous
Have you seen the placement rate that shows C tops H in Wall Street placement? Your need to improve your English comprehension. |
Anonymous
If you look at cross admit data between CalTech vs Harvard, it’s 16%:84%. People choose Harvard cuz its a cushier school. You can buy your way into Harvard - but not CalTech. No one in the right mind thinks Harvard is more rigorous than CalTech. Cross-admit data doesn’t mean what you think it means. |
Anonymous
The fact that Columbia sends more kids to IB programs or whatever methodology they use (I'm too lazy to read the article linked in OP) is irrelevant. If a Harvard grad wants to go into finance, he or she will have more and better options than a similar Columbia grad. |
Anonymous
Who brought up rigor? And none of the kids who choose Harvard over Caltech "bought" their way in to either school. |