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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of former student athletes in a number of sports on Wall Street...the soccer, the hockey, the swimming, the lacrosse circles. I worked with a number of Penn and Princeton lacrosse players in NY at big banks. I think you are pretty mistaken to imply that lacrosse butters anyone's bread. Lacrosse alums can push for interviews for kids, but then it comes down to interviewing with 15-25 people as a candidate. Showing you juggled school and a sport AND got exemplary grades AND majored in a challenging department like Econ or Math or an undergrad business school program is an absolute requirement. There might be a job or two here and there for a dolt with his 2.5 in sociology or anthropology who is a jocular ex-athlete on the repo desk or in operations. Those are the jobs that put you in a brownstone in White Plains in 20 years. The kids getting Wall Street jobs who were lacrosse players are getting those opportunities because they performed with distinction at some very good schools in very challenging majors.

Getting a job with some real estate development firm selling crappy low rise leases in Reston isn't nearly the same thing or the same success. Plenty of those jobs around here for lax bros. [/quote]

Penn alum (from the 90s) -- there are lots of the former lacrosse players from those years in positions all around Wall Street - some is just simple cohort theory where that's where they went together post school to look for work, told each other about openings, helped each other out, got their friends to help them out [ie. there's a similar, much less affluent cohort type of situation for policy jobs in DC!].  I'd say most of them were probably B students & some better than - at a school where the bell curve is a B.  They had to have been strong enough students to get in in the first place - and also the hard working thing (maybe also play hard but doesnt negate the work hard).  I say this with no love loss for Sigma Chi or Fiji.[/quote]

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