NESCAC Finance Job Placement

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I realize I’m falling for the troll here but in all seriousness: a student who is interested in high finance should not seriously consider Bucknell for undergrad apart from as a possible safety. Placement is virtually nonexistent for front office roles and I have never encountered a grad in my time working on wall st. Don’t mean to be rude, but I wouldn’t want for prospective students to consider going there for the wrong reasons.

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I'll add that Bucknell's economics department isn't particularly strong in comparison to those of other schools in its category:

https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.uslacecon.html

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell clears all of the NESCAC except W and A. Don't fret that it's not quite as selective as some of the others and the test score ranges are a little lower. It's all about the network and alumni representation in high places on The Street. Bison hire Bison.

Why does someone constantly post this? I worked at two of the top banks for years, and neither recruited at Bucknell. I can’t think of a single bucknell grad even being interviewed. Stop posting this nonsense. Whatever stats they use must be padded w/ back office hires or satellite offices of wealth management, and they’re likely counting it as banking.

Even if a firm doesn't physically recruit on Bucknell's campus, they're still recruiting Bucknell grads and soon-to-be-grads through more informal channels like the Greek system. Most top-tier fraternity men at Bucknell end up in Wall Street front offices, and once they get seasoned and have some pull within the firm, they recruit new blood from their alma mater (and specifically from their Greek house). Those kinds of bonds are unlike anything that forms at most NESCAC schools and they're the reason Bucknell punches so far above its weight in IB and MC.

This is just not true. I’m the PP and worked on wall st for years. I was involved in IB recruiting for summer analaysts and associates for my groups and don’t think I ever saw a bucknell resume pass through and definitely never worked with anyone from there. Over the course of years, that involved hundreds of deals. I’d love to know which firm has this mystical bucknell fraternity bond and pipeline?

Goldman, BR, and TD, to name a few. It also places decently at JPM. The Bucknell BSBA is basically pre-orientation for Wall Street.

Very few of those placements are actual IB: https://www.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/file/2024-05/final_post_grad_report_2023.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:I'll add that Bucknell's economics department isn't particularly strong in comparison to those of other schools in its category:

https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.uslacecon.html

Sorry your kid didn't get in.

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there's one anti-middlebury parent on this board who will constantly talk smack. just remember - this is always the same person

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Anonymous wrote:I'll add that Bucknell's economics department isn't particularly strong in comparison to those of other schools in its category:

https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.uslacecon.html

Sorry your kid didn't get in.

This is the best you got? Bucknell booster is off her game. Get over your bitterness and just admit that Bucknell is a back-up to the back-up for top students. Its job and grad school placement are relatively poor in comparison to the top NESCAC schools.

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Anonymous wrote:The quintessential college Amherst College is the best! The Harvard of the Nescac!

Wow am I happy I didn’t go to that school. It looks underwhelming, at best. The second photo is downright ugly.

First of all, the hating isn't necessary. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all.

Two, I'm guessing you were rejected.

Three, personally, that is exactly what I think college is supposed to look like. Beautiful school. And I have no ties at all to Amherst.

I didn’t apply. Went to Wellesley then Harvard. I don’t understand why you’re so defensive of a school you didn’t attend-if anything, sounds like you got rejected and need to compensate.

+1. Weirdly defensive posts here. If you don’t want someone to say a campus is ugly, don’t post a pic of a bunch of dead grass.

I toured Amherst and thought it was pretty. That second photo, however, really doesn't do its campus any justice and honestly calls its design into question. That said, when one is used to an Olmstead-designed campus like Wellesley's (hi there, Wellesley sib!), almost any other campus is going to seem flawed by comparison (to this day, the only campus I've ever seen that might be more beautiful than Wellesley's belongs to Cambridge).

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Played soccer at Midd. My entire team isn't on Wall Street - some became doctors, one went into foreign service. The rest went some kid of finance/wall street route. Early 2000's and a few stayed and are MDs now the majority started their own shops. Very few family connections, mostly school network (hosting pre-interview parties, getting on the interview boards.) The real key is internships and having our people in the right places. One year there were 100 or so interns, 20 from each school with a member on the board. Also, I'm a dude but the loyalty applies to both genders.