colleges outside top 25 (and not a nescac) that place well in finance..

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Anonymous wrote:Students who are superstars in related fields are the ones who place well, it has little to do with the colleges. Cambridge, MIT, Harvard, etc. have more people at Jane Street than anyone else because they have more graduates who are ridiculously smart and ambitious and care about making boatloads of money than other colleges. Those kids were already that way in high school, which is why they were admitted. If they had all chosen to go to Penn State instead, then Penn State would be number one at Jane Street.

That’s a small piece of it. IB and hedge funds, etc give a lot of deference to an Ivy degree. There will be oodles of ivy grads at these shops who opt out / wash out after a few years- most in fact. But the entry point of entry is much easier for them notwithstanding their major at Princeton.

For the rest of the world, though, I agree that physics, comp sci, math all can lead to these careers.

But what I'm saying is the reason they give deference to the Ivy degree (assuming they do) is because the Ivies get first pick of (most of) the strongest, most ambitious high school students, so they know these students have already been vetted by a source that's been doing this for centuries. The education they get there, though, isn't different enough from Penn State (or many other universities) that they wouldn't be just as happy to get the same students from a different place. These firms are dominated by students from the most selective colleges, but not limited to grads of those schools because there are plenty of superstars not at the Ivies+, too.

Goodness, you are assuming that all the strongest students in the country actually apply to these schools? Yes, they obviously get a strong cohort, but no one thinks they get all of the strongest most ambitious students.

In particular, over the last two years, plenty of students who would normally have been an Ivy admit (1550+ SAT, tons of APs, high GPA) have been shut out and wound up at lower ranked schools thanks to the college admissions disruption. Its very likely that these kids will be viewed as weaker students because they went to, say Wisconsin, VT or Indiana vs. an Ivy or a T25. It is possible that the upheaval in admissions will have a material impact on their career prospects. So the hits may well keep on coming for these kids later when it comes to job hunting.

This has never been true. Look around you. Stop glorifying the Ivy in your head.