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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Business prof again:  Of course there are good schools like Penn/Wharton and Cornell with undergrad business.  Others like Princeton and Northwestern have economics and applied economics with a lot of business overlap.  Those students have no trouble getting business jobs.

Northwestern has cold winters.  Brown strikes me as a pleasant, liberal arts environment.  They have an economics major.  I would not want my kid in NYC, but some people would love Columbia.  These considerations override any differences in rankings.  I would rather have a happy business graduate from UVA than a homesick dropout from an expensive school.[/quote]

I have been working in financial services for the past twenty five years, the first five years with GS and the past fifteen years with BoA, Carlyle, and Blackstone.  The school where you attended only matters if you don't know anyone there and you still have a big hurdle to climb; however, most of the candidates at those firms already have inside connections.  The reason I got a shot at GS was because one of my best friends' father was a SVP at GS.  I also went to a no name university but I got the job at GS because of the connection.[/quote]

OP here. I know you're right about the connection. So if we're a family with no connection, does that mean my dc needs to go to Harvard to have a chance?[/quote]

ugh  :roll:  and my brother graduated with a MATH degree from UVA and then went to a top MBA school a few years later and has been working at all the big banks on Wall Street his entire career. No, the choice is not between Harvard and connections. [/quote]

Connection and social skills will trump grades and where you attend college.  There are many ways to make connections and improve your social skills.  Anyone with a college degree can do a finance job, tt is not difficult at all.  The key is how to get into the door. [/quote]

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