W&L placement / alumni network / finance

[Anonymous]

My kid is being recruited - big selling point by coaches / team members is that the alumni network is real and extremely loyal - if you have good grades and actually network as an athlete you can most likely leverage alumns and land top finance gig. And this makes school punch well above weight for athlete placement, and on par with the top nescacs. Anyone able to speak to veracity of this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is being recruited - big selling point by coaches / team members is that the alumni network is real and extremely loyal - if you have good grades and actually network as an athlete you can most likely leverage alumns and land top finance gig. And this makes school punch well above weight for athlete placement, and on par with the top nescacs. Anyone able to speak to veracity of this?

Yes, it's true.

[Anonymous]

W&L appears in this analysis of Wall Street and IB feeder schools, along with NESCACs Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Hamilton and Bowdoin:

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

[Anonymous]

Don’t take his word…ask who the alums are from the team and where they work, Google and confirm and then ask if your kid can speak to one or two.

If it’s legit the coach will offer freely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is being recruited - big selling point by coaches / team members is that the alumni network is real and extremely loyal - if you have good grades and actually network as an athlete you can most likely leverage alumns and land top finance gig. And this makes school punch well above weight for athlete placement, and on par with the top nescacs. Anyone able to speak to veracity of this?

The coach is on the level. From my experience W&L probably doesn't do as well as Amherst, Middlebury, and Williams but it hangs in their with Bowdoin and Hamilton. The biggest difference will be in the target banks for the two groups.

[Anonymous]

W&L’s athletic peers in the ODAC are Roanoke, Lynchburg, Bridgewater. You aren’t regularly competing against the elite D3’s if that’s something you care about. Those are fine schools but don’t think you’ll be spending time on other country club campuses.

[Anonymous]

Coaches are like used car salesmen. They are there to sell you a dream. As pervious poster said, get factual data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:W&L’s athletic peers in the ODAC are Roanoke, Lynchburg, Bridgewater. You aren’t regularly competing against the elite D3’s if that’s something you care about. Those are fine schools but don’t think you’ll be spending time on other country club campuses.

Has absolutely nothing to do with OP's question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:W&L’s athletic peers in the ODAC are Roanoke, Lynchburg, Bridgewater. You aren’t regularly competing against the elite D3’s if that’s something you care about. Those are fine schools but don’t think you’ll be spending time on other country club campuses.

Has absolutely nothing to do with OP's question.

Actually it’s very relevant. W&L wants recruits to think they’ll be living the good life. If that means being around Lee’s corpse and riding the motor coach to Harrisonburg, so be it. Kick rocks!

[Anonymous]

It's not quite BRAD, but W&L has a solid network on Wall Street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:W&L’s athletic peers in the ODAC are Roanoke, Lynchburg, Bridgewater. You aren’t regularly competing against the elite D3’s if that’s something you care about. Those are fine schools but don’t think you’ll be spending time on other country club campuses.

Has absolutely nothing to do with OP's question.

Actually it’s very relevant. W&L wants recruits to think they’ll be living the good life. If that means being around Lee’s corpse and riding the motor coach to Harrisonburg, so be it. Kick rocks!

Look up alumni and network.

Dufus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:W&L’s athletic peers in the ODAC are Roanoke, Lynchburg, Bridgewater. You aren’t regularly competing against the elite D3’s if that’s something you care about. Those are fine schools but don’t think you’ll be spending time on other country club campuses.

Has absolutely nothing to do with OP's question.

Actually it’s very relevant. W&L wants recruits to think they’ll be living the good life. If that means being around Lee’s corpse and riding the motor coach to Harrisonburg, so be it. Kick rocks!

Look up alumni and network.

Dufus.

Why hasn’t W&L been invited to a better conference? That must be really embarrassing on the Street, idiot.

[Anonymous]

WIS is one of the biggest student-run investment vehicles in the country (#6 -- and would be #1 per capita). They provide a great network to Wall Street/NYC investment banks. See article:
https://campaign.wlu.edu/stories/williams-investment-society-grows-dividends-for-long-term-success

Anonymous wrote:It's not quite BRAD, but W&L has a solid network on Wall Street.

[Anonymous]

Frankly overstated rubbish. It’s a fine liberal arts university, decent outcomes in the law school, but it’s really not a high quality alum network and outcomes aren’t elite level

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is being recruited - big selling point by coaches / team members is that the alumni network is real and extremely loyal - if you have good grades and actually network as an athlete you can most likely leverage alumns and land top finance gig. And this makes school punch well above weight for athlete placement, and on par with the top nescacs. Anyone able to speak to veracity of this?

Believable if a recruit for Lax.