Kid wants to work on Wall Street

[Anonymous]

DS is a rising high school senior with dreams of working for one of the big Wall Street banks (Goldman, JPM, etc.) after college. His older cousin went that route out of Harvard, and after making it through two years of hell in the form of 80-90 hour weeks, he's living the good life and making bank. DS doesn't have Ivy stats like his cousin, but he's a strong student with a 3.8UW/4.3W at a respectable public, 1480/33, and well-rounded ECs including varsity sports, student government, piano, volunteering, etc. He wants to stay in the eastern half of the country but otherwise is geographically open. What schools should be on his list?

[Anonymous]

Bucknell is a target for your DS based on stats and has a very strong pipeline to The Street, including the two banks you mentioned.

[Anonymous]

NYU if you can afford it

[Anonymous]

Colgate, Lehigh; Bucknell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bucknell is a target for your DS based on stats and has a very strong pipeline to The Street, including the two banks you mentioned.

OP here. This is what I keep hearing. We'll have to check it out. Does the "pipeline" involve actual on-campus recruiting, or is it more about networking with alums?

[Anonymous]

Kids wanting to work Wall Street need to watch out they aren't planning on jobs that bots can do in a few years. Strong people skills will be valued over what quanty skills learned in school.
It's really like planning to go to Hollywood and hang out drinking sodas at Schwab's. Not what it once was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids wanting to work Wall Street need to watch out they aren't planning on jobs that bots can do in a few years. Strong people skills will be valued over what quanty skills learned in school.
It's really like planning to go to Hollywood and hang out drinking sodas at Schwab's. Not what it once was.

This is a huge benefit of going to a highly social school like Bucknell where you learn how to network and be part of the "boys club."

[Anonymous]

It’s a career where you need extremely good social skills and high EQ. Make sure the college offers that if not T20

[Anonymous]

Bucknell

[Anonymous]

Colgate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bucknell is a target for your DS based on stats and has a very strong pipeline to The Street, including the two banks you mentioned.

OP here. This is what I keep hearing. We'll have to check it out. Does the "pipeline" involve actual on-campus recruiting, or is it more about networking with alums?

You keep hearing it because the same lolcow troll keeps saying it here, but that doesn't mean it's true. (It isn't.)

[Anonymous]

Fordham University

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bucknell is a target for your DS based on stats and has a very strong pipeline to The Street, including the two banks you mentioned.

OP here. This is what I keep hearing. We'll have to check it out. Does the "pipeline" involve actual on-campus recruiting, or is it more about networking with alums?

Both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bucknell is a target for your DS based on stats and has a very strong pipeline to The Street, including the two banks you mentioned.

OP here. This is what I keep hearing. We'll have to check it out. Does the "pipeline" involve actual on-campus recruiting, or is it more about networking with alums?

You keep hearing it because the same lolcow troll keeps saying it here, but that doesn't mean it's true. (It isn't.)

Like five people have recommended Bucknell in this thread. There's a reason. You're the only hater who always shows up to trash it. Must not have gotten in.

[Anonymous]

Bucknell 1000% if kid wants a path to the street and big bucks. Bucknell punches well above its weight in this regard, and the alumni network is unmatched. Rivals the ivies in this regard