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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So in summary, go to an Ivie or a Top Public specific for Engineering to land the first best job out kid college.  Got it.  [/quote]

Unless you don’t want to be a quant? This thread took a weird turn where apparently that’s the only “top” job available.[/quote]
Depending on what you mean by top. Most students would kill to swap into Jane Street from MBB and Goldman Sachs. It’s like comparing Harvard and Boston College. Both are great choices, but if you’re a double admit, which one would you choose? [/quote]

Plenty would choose MBB or Goldman. These are all different roles. They are not interchangeable for most people, except those lacking in direction.[/quote]
That’s false. JS NGs are paid at the similar level to Goldman’s MDs (more junior ones). Money is not the only factor but it can change things. It’s actually a consensus on Wall Street that sell side is on the lower end of the food chain relative to  buy side.[/quote]

It’s not false at all. Quant trading is not the same as working on deals which is not the same as consulting which is not the same as being in portfolio management at a long-only asset manager which is not the same as being a commodity trader which is not the same as being a macro hedge fund analyst which is not…I could go on and on.

People choose different things based on their interests, skills, and experience, and they can’t just switch from one to the other. There is a reason the top 5 on the list above for Jane Street is MIT, CMU, Cal, UTA, Stanford. You think that’s the top 5 at Goldman or McKinsey? No. Different skillsets. Different backgrounds. Plenty of people would be happy to be somewhere other than Jane Street and more successful at it too, rather than doing something that isn’t a good fit for them.[/quote]

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