Anyone have insight on Pomona for “high” finance?

[Anonymous]

This isnt about Bucknell and whoever keeps bringing it up should leave and make their own thread. Pomona had more grads last year go into IB than CMC according to DC, but that’s it- the students will not go into other parts of finance, while cmc has a lot more diversity and investment in many financial careers. CMC also has finance and accounting classes, which are good things to know. CMC really is the better pick op, and I think your child should look into the PPE program-it’s very strong to the point that the original chair of the Pomona ppe program left for CMC’s, because it is that good.

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Anonymous wrote:DC attends, and I'm an alum. CMC is the better choice. Pomona students are not really the crowd that are interested in IB. There's many students who go into consulting, but few are interested in doing finance long term. CMC has all the resources for getting into IB and offers more funding to their students than Pomona. Pomona is the type of place for an Econ student who wants to go to graduate school or someone fine with using consulting as a buffer to get into the career they actually want. Few interest in IB, so it would be better to take up the opportunities and clubs at CMC.

Agree. I’d call CMC the Bucknell of the West, while Pomona is more like Swarthmore. Both are incredible schools, but their strengths are in very different areas. Is your kid more interested in being immersed in intellectualism or getting on the fast track to The Street?

CMC is substantially better at finance placement than Bucknell, though.

+1 I’d call Bucknell the DeVry of the East.

The Street! Ha ha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isnt about Bucknell and whoever keeps bringing it up should leave and make their own thread. Pomona had more grads last year go into IB than CMC according to DC, but that’s it- the students will not go into other parts of finance, while cmc has a lot more diversity and investment in many financial careers. CMC also has finance and accounting classes, which are good things to know. CMC really is the better pick op, and I think your child should look into the PPE program-it’s very strong to the point that the original chair of the Pomona ppe program left for CMC’s, because it is that good.

Unfortunately they won’t because they just like to pollute everyone else’s threads. Fully agree with the rest of your points though.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s a joke right? CMC is heads and shoulders way above Bucknell. They are planning to expand the campus and are opening a really cool Integrated Science center. Expect them and the 5C’s to explode in popularity going forward.

https://www.cmc.edu/newsfeed/cmc-announces-roberts-campus

This plan seems like a massive waste of money. You can’t “integrate” the sciences, not if you wanna get into grad school.

[Anonymous]

Please send your child to Chicago or Columbia if they want to be a finance person.

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Anonymous wrote:Please send your child to Chicago or Columbia if they want to be a finance person.

?? What a weird comment. If you want to go to the most prestigious places for finance, these are not the schools. Stop hijacking threads with your own biases.

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If you want to go to quant finance (is that what high finance means?), frankly they are looking for math and physics grads who are almost IMO level and who can do well in their interviews which are very math based. I know kids from Rutgers and Rice at quant jobs but both kids are exceptional at Math and aced their interviews.

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What I meant to say in the above post is that it does not matter where you go to school as long as you can ace interviews. There are more kids from MIT at quant shops because they happen to be great at math not because they necessarily went to MIT.

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Anonymous wrote:What I meant to say in the above post is that it does not matter where you go to school as long as you can ace interviews. There are more kids from MIT at quant shops because they happen to be great at math not because they necessarily went to MIT.

Because they happen to be good at IMO and math competition. You can be really good at math, but crap at the type of math needed for quant and the culture is very math competition heavy, which is different from being good at Algebra, for example.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to go to quant finance (is that what high finance means?), frankly they are looking for math and physics grads who are almost IMO level and who can do well in their interviews which are very math based. I know kids from Rutgers and Rice at quant jobs but both kids are exceptional at Math and aced their interviews.

High finance as in PE HF VC

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to go to quant finance (is that what high finance means?), frankly they are looking for math and physics grads who are almost IMO level and who can do well in their interviews which are very math based. I know kids from Rutgers and Rice at quant jobs but both kids are exceptional at Math and aced their interviews.

High finance as in PE HF VC

VC is more of a create than join kind of career. Few VC oops are looking for undergrads, and they want people who are gonna accelerate them. Id recommend Stanford to a student interested in VC, which they built with friends.