Kid wants to work on Wall Street

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is mostly one Bucknell student or alum posting over and over, pretending to be different people. "I have no dog in this fight, but BUCKNELL IS THE BEST SCHOOL EVER!"

Look, Bucknell is a fine school, but you're really turning people off with your incessant posting.

Look at the hard data. Here are two analyses of feeder school to Wall Street. Bucknell doesn't appear on either of them. Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, and CMC are semi targets for Wall Street. That's pretty much it in terms of SLACs.

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

https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools

Based on this list, particularly scaled for size of school, Washington and Lee, BC, and SMU might be the easiest admits of colleges that actually send people to Wall Street. They aren't easy admits, but easier than Penn.

SMU is a pretty easy admit. It doesn't have a huge pipeline to The Street, but it does to finance and banking jobs in DFW, of which there are many.

Might not be a huge pipeline, but it actually is on the list of colleges that feed to Wall Street firms. Bucknell isn't on the list at all!!!

SMU grads do incredibly well and have boujie lives in Highland Park iykyk

The small subset at the top, ie the ones who got 50% merit or more (true merit not need), are the ones who do well. Even so, “well” is mid-tier banking in regional southern areas ala charlotte, atlanta, dallas. 2 yr contracts, IB scut work jobs that pay $70-80 but then only 5-10% are kept on. They punch above their weight for sure but it is only a path for the top5-10% of smu business grads. It is not the same as ivy/plus where an average joe with a 3.8 can easily get an actual wall street position and the top 25% can get true top jobs in finance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is mostly one Bucknell student or alum posting over and over, pretending to be different people. "I have no dog in this fight, but BUCKNELL IS THE BEST SCHOOL EVER!"

Look, Bucknell is a fine school, but you're really turning people off with your incessant posting.

Look at the hard data. Here are two analyses of feeder school to Wall Street. Bucknell doesn't appear on either of them. Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, and CMC are semi targets for Wall Street. That's pretty much it in terms of SLACs.

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

https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools

Based on this list, particularly scaled for size of school, Washington and Lee, BC, and SMU might be the easiest admits of colleges that actually send people to Wall Street. They aren't easy admits, but easier than Penn.

SMU is a pretty easy admit. It doesn't have a huge pipeline to The Street, but it does to finance and banking jobs in DFW, of which there are many.

SMU is a good one.

Forget about NY. Those offices recruit from maybe ten schools. And it's a miserable three years. Surprised more don't kill themselves - which has been an issue.

But Denver, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Boston, and Nashville all pick up junior year interns. And subsequently hire. And you don't need to be a Medieval History major at Yale to be picked up. Obviously, Duke, Vanderbilt, Chicago, Northwestern, and Notre Dame are where it's at. Maybe some quant action from Rice and Michigan and Georgia Tech.

But SMU is really good because it's a comfortable, pleasant school. Parents are very well to do. It's a vibe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is mostly one Bucknell student or alum posting over and over, pretending to be different people. "I have no dog in this fight, but BUCKNELL IS THE BEST SCHOOL EVER!"

Look, Bucknell is a fine school, but you're really turning people off with your incessant posting.

Look at the hard data. Here are two analyses of feeder school to Wall Street. Bucknell doesn't appear on either of them. Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, and CMC are semi targets for Wall Street. That's pretty much it in terms of SLACs.

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

https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools

Based on this list, particularly scaled for size of school, Washington and Lee, BC, and SMU might be the easiest admits of colleges that actually send people to Wall Street. They aren't easy admits, but easier than Penn.

SMU is a pretty easy admit. It doesn't have a huge pipeline to The Street, but it does to finance and banking jobs in DFW, of which there are many.

Might not be a huge pipeline, but it actually is on the list of colleges that feed to Wall Street firms. Bucknell isn't on the list at all!!!

SMU grads do incredibly well and have boujie lives in Highland Park iykyk

The small subset at the top, ie the ones who got 50% merit or more (true merit not need), are the ones who do well. Even so, “well” is mid-tier banking in regional southern areas ala charlotte, atlanta, dallas. 2 yr contracts, IB scut work jobs that pay $70-80 but then only 5-10% are kept on. They punch above their weight for sure but it is only a path for the top5-10% of smu business grads. It is not the same as ivy/plus where an average joe with a 3.8 can easily get an actual wall street position and the top 25% can get true top jobs in finance.

They make enough to live good lives in the most expensive area in Texas. I think they’re fine with their jobs.

[Anonymous]

If you are still checking this op: the answer is Union College in New York State.

https://www.union.edu/news/stories/202312/union-financial-network-finance-bootcamp-featured-wall-street-journal

[Anonymous]

I worked 30 years on Wall Street. Went to a local college and Parents lived near Manhattan. You can still work there just not an Investment Banker program or Analyst role right out of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked 30 years on Wall Street. Went to a local college and Parents lived near Manhattan. You can still work there just not an Investment Banker program or Analyst role right out of school.

It's not 1990 any more, Jennifer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I worked 30 years on Wall Street. Went to a local college and Parents lived near Manhattan. You can still work there just not an Investment Banker program or Analyst role right out of school.

It's not 1990 any more, Jennifer.

You can still get awesome jobs on the street if you ignore IB. Students are too obsessed these days with immediately making 100k+. They need to actually get some skills before demanding high pay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the venom towards Bucknell is hysterical - and sadly, not surprising on this site. The elitism from these try hard parents obsessed with the ivy brand would be comical if it wasn’t just so shocking. Google Bucknell Goldman linkedin - and you will see that no, it isn’t impossible to land a job at a top firm with a Bucknell degree - in fact, there are a ton - probably as many Bucknell grads there as there are from Georgetown, or Duke, or Brown, etc. So to the know it alls who like to pontificate on this site- let’s get the facts straight pls

I heard there is an actual, physical, literal pipeline from Bucknell to Wall Street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the venom towards Bucknell is hysterical - and sadly, not surprising on this site. The elitism from these try hard parents obsessed with the ivy brand would be comical if it wasn’t just so shocking. Google Bucknell Goldman linkedin - and you will see that no, it isn’t impossible to land a job at a top firm with a Bucknell degree - in fact, there are a ton - probably as many Bucknell grads there as there are from Georgetown, or Duke, or Brown, etc. So to the know it alls who like to pontificate on this site- let’s get the facts straight pls

I heard there is an actual, physical, literal pipeline from Bucknell to Wall Street.

They make the kids slide down it when they graduate it. ECON BA TO IB AT MORGAN STANLEY BABY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the venom towards Bucknell is hysterical - and sadly, not surprising on this site. The elitism from these try hard parents obsessed with the ivy brand would be comical if it wasn’t just so shocking. Google Bucknell Goldman linkedin - and you will see that no, it isn’t impossible to land a job at a top firm with a Bucknell degree - in fact, there are a ton - probably as many Bucknell grads there as there are from Georgetown, or Duke, or Brown, etc. So to the know it alls who like to pontificate on this site- let’s get the facts straight pls

I heard there is an actual, physical, literal pipeline from Bucknell to Wall Street.

Carried through the pipeline on sudsy beer!

[Anonymous]

Is it about making big bucks or really wanting to just work on Wall St? If it’s big bucks there are many easier ways to do this than work on Wall St.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it about making big bucks or really wanting to just work on Wall St? If it’s big bucks there are many easier ways to do this than work on Wall St.

Please explain

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it about making big bucks or really wanting to just work on Wall St? If it’s big bucks there are many easier ways to do this than work on Wall St.

I never understand why students like this don’t take the road most travelled. Nursing and Accounting are stable, easy for employment, can be done anywhere, and pay very well. They are always going to be needed and are essentially cheat codes to an upper middle class lifestyle.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it about making big bucks or really wanting to just work on Wall St? If it’s big bucks there are many easier ways to do this than work on Wall St.

I never understand why students like this don’t take the road most travelled. Nursing and Accounting are stable, easy for employment, can be done anywhere, and pay very well. They are always going to be needed and are essentially cheat codes to an upper middle class lifestyle.

Have you met a nurse that likes their job? Or an account for that matter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it about making big bucks or really wanting to just work on Wall St? If it’s big bucks there are many easier ways to do this than work on Wall St.

I never understand why students like this don’t take the road most travelled. Nursing and Accounting are stable, easy for employment, can be done anywhere, and pay very well. They are always going to be needed and are essentially cheat codes to an upper middle class lifestyle.

Have you met a nurse that likes their job? Or an account for that matter?

Accountant, spelling is hard