I don’t see why Vanderbilt wouldn’t. It has a great Econ/HOD department, and Columbia has a lot of other professional careers it feeds better into. |
Then you clearly don't work in finance, that's the furthest thing from true. Columbia is a 10 min walk from wallstreet. |
And the way that just doesn’t have anything to do with what I said. Claremont McKenna is 1000s of miles away from Wall Street and look at that…it scores pretty damn well for getting kids into Wall Street. Columbia has amazing public health, medical school, engineering and social sciences departments. You know who’s not far from wall street? The New school. Don’t see them vaulted anywhere. Also Morningside heights is not that close to Wall Street, bud. |
Columbia is almost exactly 10 miles from Wall Street. You must walk really fast. Though I do agree that if you want to work on Wall Street, Columbia is a great place to go. It is just that unlike DCUM, everyone there is not obsessed with Wall Street. But enough are that it is easy to do. |
Agreed. I was trying to draw the mental map of going from Harlem to Wall Street in 10 minutes and just started audibly laughing. People here are quite funny. |
Yes. Because it was likely posted by someone who lives in Leesburg, not on West 114th Street. |
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I don’t think they mean Wall Street the physical location vs Wall Street as a euphemism for finance/banking/PE.
The Claremont kids are headed to LA and SF more than NYC working in those industries. |
This is just a wrong assumption. More CMC students in the past 3 years went to NYC than LA: https://www.cmc.edu/institutional-research/factbook/outcomes-6months A lot of 5C students are from New York/Boston and intend to go back home. |
Well, when adjusted for the size of the school, the biggest feeders to IB are: Chicago Dartmouth Princeton Georgetown Harvard Yale Amherst Middlebury Williams Duke Penn Notre Dame Vanderbilt Brown Columbia SMU Cornell Rice Northwestern Boston College Stanford So yes, Vanderbilt is a bigger feeder than Columbia. Which makes sense. I don't think most students today choose Columbia because they want to go into investment banking. I'm a little surprised by how high Rice is and how low Stanford is - I didn't think anyone at Rice was interested in IB and I would have expected more from Stanford. But I am not at all surprised that SMU ranks so high today. |
Well there are more headed to LA plus San Francisco than NYC based on your chart…which is literally what I wrote (and NYC exceeded LA by one kid). |
Honestly would pick Stern over Columbia econ for IB placement. Just prepares you better than econ/math. |
So, no nyu? |
Wall Street is split. Half would rather have a plug and play Stern kid. But half would rather have the Columbia kid who has more intellectual horsepower and can be trained the way the bank/fund wants them to think. They might not model as well from day one but their overall critical thinking skills are generally better. I am in the latter category, but understand why others feel differently. |
What is the source here? |
We shouldn't assume stern kids are less qualified than those from Ivies...thier stats are quite comparable and they don't lack critical thinking. |