Bucknell, The Street, and Pipelines not named Keystone

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Anonymous wrote:this thread has been endless comedy. thanks everyone. I think the Bucknell booster has made it all satire at this point.

"Pipeline to the street 4 ever!" LOL

+1000

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FYI I'm getting a Bucknell Bison tattoo on my neck with the words "Pipeline 2 Da Street" under it.

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Anonymous wrote:Rather than comparing Bucknell to intellectual lacs, how does it compare to finance-minded lacs like Claremont McKenna or Washington&Lee?

I don’t agree that CMC and W&L are not “intellectual LACs”. Nor do I agree they are “finance minded” - their graduates do lots of other things besides finance and I bet most of them do not do finance.

30-40% of CMCs graduating classes major in Economics. They are one of the few LACs with a masters in finance. Their most notable alumni are entirely in finance. Even their new integrated science program is about graduating science majors with computational skills to immediately skirt grad school and run towards industry to make money in biotech and data science.

Just because they majored in econ does not mean they went into finance. In fact most of them don't. In the classes of 2013-22, most CMC grads (21%) went into tech and entrepreneurship, 16% went into accounting/finance, 11.5% into government/law (very common for CMC grads to get law degrees), 13% into nonprofits, 9% into consulting, etc.

But the main point is that regarding CMC as somehow "not intellectual" like it's a vocational training school is just wrong.

CMC is on the west coast. “Tech and entrepreneurship” is fintech and financial pipelines in Google and Apple, not Software engineering students.

You have no idea what they're doing for Apple and Microsoft. And you're wrong, CMC grads have absolutely gotten hired to do software engineering, not least because they can take courses at Mudd.

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As a parent of a content Bucknell student who is not remotely interested in finance, I hate how Bucknell is discussed on this website. It is a great school for the right kid. No one ever said it was Harvard, and the kids are happy and learning. Why the need to do so much bashing?

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Anonymous wrote:How did a Bucknell thread become about Claremont McKenna? There’s a topic guys! Stick to it!

no one cares. Go away.

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Anonymous wrote:Does this help?

https://www.bucknell.edu/meet-bucknell/bucknell-outcomes

Or this

https://magazine.bucknell.edu/freeman-college-of-management/2024-college-report/

Key stat from the second link:

54% of Freeman grads end up in financial services, with a starting salary (meaning right out of college with just a bachelor's) of $90k.

Just FYI for those who mock the idea of Bucknell being a pipeline to The Street. It's real.

Haha the physics majors do better in finance than the finance majors.

https://www.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/file/2024-05/final_post_grad_report_2023.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a content Bucknell student who is not remotely interested in finance, I hate how Bucknell is discussed on this website. It is a great school for the right kid. No one ever said it was Harvard, and the kids are happy and learning. Why the need to do so much bashing?

it’s all the ivy strivers who micromanage and control where their uptight awkward and socially maladjusted progeny apply - and define their worth by the ranking of the schools said progeny were accepted into - Bucknell kids are cool, good-looking, laid back, and heavens forbid - successful in life!

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Anonymous wrote:Peak Frameworks doesn't have W&L, Bucknell or Davidson listed anywhere.

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

They start their analysis based on sheer numbers -- smallest school on their list is Dartmouth (which has almost 1000 more undergrads than Bucknell).

This just isn’t true? CMC is in the list and only has 1200 students.

The first part was true: they are listing the schools with the most bankers reported in LinkedIn. So tiny banking heavy schools like CMC are there, as well as huge banking-light schools like Arizona Statem.

Bucknell has an average percentage of bankers among these schools, but is also small ish (4000 undergrads).

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Anonymous wrote:Great question.

The poster who repeatedly posts about Bucknell University being connected to Wall Street is exaggerating.

CMC as well as Wash & Lee are solid options to consider if aiming for a job in finance.

The most common aspect among the 3 schools is the proclivity toward consuming large amounts of alcohol. Not kidding. I like all 3 schools, but the heavy drinking aspect would be my biggest concern if I had a child at any of these 3 elite LACs.

Heavy drinking isn't exactly unusual on the Street -- may as well get acclimated early.

What a gross and unhealthy attitude. You can get by fine without drinking “on the Street.” Promoting alcoholism is sick.

Yeah you sure sound like someone who knows what your are talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:How would you compare:

Colgate
CMC
Davidson
Lehigh
Bucknell

Love this!!! Great question

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Anonymous wrote:For the most part Bucknell is compared with Colgate, Lehigh and Lafayette.

The order is probably

Colgate
Lehigh
Bucknell
Lafayette.

At one point Bucknell was ahead of Lehigh but got jumped.

Agreed

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Anonymous wrote:How would you compare:

Colgate
CMC
Davidson
Lehigh
Bucknell

Love this!!! Great question

CMC>Davidson>Colgate>Bucknell>Lehigh

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Anonymous wrote:CMC is Claremont McKenna. It would easily top that list. So

CMC
Williams (yes Williams out ranks CMC in general but not in Finance)
W&L
Colgate
Lehigh
Layfayett - Bucknell

Who is considering Colgate, Lehigh, Lafayette and Bucknell AND also considering a jump to the west coast for CMC? CMC seems like an outlier

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a content Bucknell student who is not remotely interested in finance, I hate how Bucknell is discussed on this website. It is a great school for the right kid. No one ever said it was Harvard, and the kids are happy and learning. Why the need to do so much bashing?

This!

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I know someone who chose Bucknell over Boston College. Odd.