Kid wants to work on Wall Street

[Anonymous]

OP, the obvious answer here is for the older cousin to mentor your son and let him bypass the Wall Street hazing.

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Anonymous wrote:Never heard of Bucknell.

Never heard of Bucknell? It's a LAC with D1 sports, business, engineering, and, most important to this post, a pipeline to the Street. It's shocking that it's not more popular among the LAC crowd, as it takes some of the best features from a state school and puts them in a smaller, less scary package. Think of it as a Big Ten school but just one-tenth the size.

[Anonymous]

My son has similar goals and is just finishing up his first year at NYU-Stern. Let me know I you have any specific questions. His stats were quite similar to your child’s.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

Maybe he could use City University of New York as a safety. My guess is that, for many fields, you get the roughly equally talented spouses of the NYU and Columbia professors for a quarter of the cost.

[Anonymous]

It’s a crap shoot. It has been all top schools for like 25 years now.

But some schools like Nova, NYU and even Baruch (middle office) has a lot of alumni who will hire you

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Anonymous wrote:What does kid look like? Did he play sports?

I interviewed at several Wall Street firms after my MBA and most guys were six foot two inch to six foot four inch good looking guys to played Lacrosse

Lax bros become finance bros. Since forever

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Anonymous wrote:Never heard of Bucknell.

Never heard of Bucknell? It's a LAC with D1 sports, business, engineering, and, most important to this post, a pipeline to the Street. It's shocking that it's not more popular among the LAC crowd, as it takes some of the best features from a state school and puts them in a smaller, less scary package. Think of it as a Big Ten school but just one-tenth the size.

Yeah I am surprised when people haven’t heard of it. I know my kids guidance counselor called it Ivy Lite, but it is everything you think a college campus should look like. Most people I know from there were engineers and have done well. Engineers and finance bros do best there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son has similar goals and is just finishing up his first year at NYU-Stern. Let me know I you have any specific questions. His stats were quite similar to your child’s.

Would love to hear his experiences, and thoughts on Stern - appreciate candor on Stern curve, club scene and recruitment efforts. Also, how happy generally are the kids there?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of Bucknell.

Never heard of Bucknell? It's a LAC with D1 sports, business, engineering, and, most important to this post, a pipeline to the Street. It's shocking that it's not more popular among the LAC crowd, as it takes some of the best features from a state school and puts them in a smaller, less scary package. Think of it as a Big Ten school but just one-tenth the size.

Ok, I'll bite. Describe the so-called pipeline please. In detail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kenyon has excellent economics dept and connected alumni

DS is enjoying it - in one advanced class with only 4 students !

[Anonymous]

Haven't read the whole thread but Fordham is a great backdoor to Wall Street.

[Anonymous]

The easiest way to get a job in finance or IB is to be a D1 athlete. DS did two internships with Blackstone and was offered a full time position at Blackstone, and he will start next month. It is because he plays D1 sport at UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

Maybe he could use City University of New York as a safety. My guess is that, for many fields, you get the roughly equally talented spouses of the NYU and Columbia professors for a quarter of the cost.

Wall Street does not hire from CUNY.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of Bucknell.

Never heard of Bucknell? It's a LAC with D1 sports, business, engineering, and, most important to this post, a pipeline to the Street. It's shocking that it's not more popular among the LAC crowd, as it takes some of the best features from a state school and puts them in a smaller, less scary package. Think of it as a Big Ten school but just one-tenth the size.

Ok, I'll bite. Describe the so-called pipeline please. In detail.

Lots of their students go to Wall Street. DH went there 30 years ago and works on Wall Street. All of his frat brothers also work either in finance or Wall Street.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of Bucknell.

Never heard of Bucknell? It's a LAC with D1 sports, business, engineering, and, most important to this post, a pipeline to the Street. It's shocking that it's not more popular among the LAC crowd, as it takes some of the best features from a state school and puts them in a smaller, less scary package. Think of it as a Big Ten school but just one-tenth the size.

Ok, I'll bite. Describe the so-called pipeline please. In detail.

The pipeline is straight into the middle office. Those jobs are fine, but set expectations accordingly.