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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is this repeat poster who keeps talking about AWS? It's Amherst and Williams. That's it. Swarthmore doesn't get nearly the same level of recruiting. Heck, the Claremont Colleges and Bowdoin/Middlebury do better.[/quote]

Are you confusing Swarthmore with Skidmore? Because only someone with very little knowledge of LACs would exclude Swarthmore from the top 3.[/quote]

I never denied that. But Swarthmore gets nowhere near the recruiting Amherst or Williams do. First off, it's small for a LAC. Secondly, most of their grads aren't pre-professional. Swarthmore is not recruited by the top consulting firms like Amherst, Williams, and Pomona are.

If you want to make an example about the best LACs for career prospects, it would not be AWS. It would be AW, maybe Bowdoin and Middlebury, and the Claremonts for West Coast recruiting. [/quote]

Where are you getting your info? I hope its not from some random source like College Confidential. It strikes me that Swarthmore is a pretty easy recruiting place for many companies, given its easy proximity to NYC and DC. Also, if you look at the college counseling website, about 25% of the class ends up in consulting, business, or some other related field. Econ is a very popular major there. Anecdotally, when I was a student there, your usual consulting firms all visited Swat (McKinsey, E&Y, Bain, etc.), and a fair number of my classmates ended up at HBS or Stanford BS.[/quote]

When did you go to swat? I can tell you as of Swat class of 2014, getting into BCG, McK, or Bain was extremely hard and took lots of leg work by kids that wanted to break in. It isn't the same pipeline that a dartmouth or even Brown kid would have.

My sister had to work the alum network hard to get stuff. It paid off (see my post from a few weeks ago about 'strong alum networks') because swatties look out for one another but there isn't the on campus formal linkages with the top firms that you find at Williams or Amherst.

Banking is a bit different - a number of swatties at GS for example from my sister's peer group but that's also a function of bulge brackets taking a lot more kids in general than MBB consulting.[/quote]

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