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Anonymous wrote:This has little to do with the college and everything to do with the background of the kids. The overwhelming majority of the undergrads heading into banking have family already in banking; from dads to older brothers to uncles or grandpa. I'd estimate 75% are already connected, 20% are cute elbowy gals with at least a 3.5 GPA, and 5% are URMs with at least a 3.3 GPA.

I bet this list would barely change if you sorted for New England and Tri-State private prep school alums per capita.

Most ORMs at Feeders that go into IB or S&T don’t have banking parents.

There's much more to Wall Street/finance than IB or S&T.

The other poster is correct. So many kids going into Wall Street in some capacity have families who have a history of working on Wall Street or in financial roles. It's not restricted to the Ivies but it's also why you see plenty of kids from LACs heading to New York to work in finance/banking/consulting. Because their fathers worked in finance.

It's not a bad career track because it delivers plenty of rewards. Even if you end up leaving NYC or never going to NYC and working in finance in other cities. It's a great way to get into the six figure income track pretty early on and have a comfortable life. And that's why the fathers (and now mothers) increasingly direct their kids onto similar tracks.

Anonymous wrote:Is banking still the highest paying, most prestigious job out of undergrad?

“$200,000 paychecks, exit opportunities and proximity to power: Why graduates flock to Wall Street
PUBLISHED THU, AUG 19 2021 8:39 AM EDT”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/08/19/why-college-graduates-flock-to-wall-street-jobs.html

NYU is supremely overrated.

Is banking still the highest paying, most prestigious job out of undergrad?

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to HYPSM?

Right lol. But I think Stanford and MIT students focus mainly on tech.

More of a knock against Yale and Princeton. We all know that Stanford and MIT dominate tech, so we have an impression that HYP would be the top Wall Street feeders. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

So much for Columbia haters who say it couldn’t possibly be #2 in the nation. It’s the only school that’s #2 on Wall Street and #5 in tech.

NYU is better represented than Columbia in finance

NYU has 3-4 times the undergrad population plus a business school that's about the size of Columbia College.

Anonymous wrote:What happened to HYPSM?

THE HORROR

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to HYPSM?

Right lol. But I think Stanford and MIT students focus mainly on tech.

More of a knock against Yale and Princeton. We all know that Stanford and MIT dominate tech, so we have an impression that HYP would be the top Wall Street feeders. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

So much for Columbia haters who say it couldn’t possibly be #2 in the nation. It’s the only school that’s #2 on Wall Street and #5 in tech.

NYU is better represented than Columbia in finance

Pound-for-pound, NYU is #27 based on its employment with Citi. Pound-for-pound, Columbia is #2 with its major employer being Goldman Sachs.
I didn’t see NYU on the tech list where Columbia is #5.

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to HYPSM?

Right lol. But I think Stanford and MIT students focus mainly on tech.

More of a knock against Yale and Princeton. We all know that Stanford and MIT dominate tech, so we have an impression that HYP would be the top Wall Street feeders. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

So much for Columbia haters who say it couldn’t possibly be #2 in the nation. It’s the only school that’s #2 on Wall Street and #5 in tech.

NYU is better represented than Columbia in finance

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to HYPSM?

Right lol. But I think Stanford and MIT students focus mainly on tech.

More of a knock against Yale and Princeton. We all know that Stanford and MIT dominate tech, so we have an impression that HYP would be the top Wall Street feeders. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

So much for Columbia haters who say it couldn’t possibly be #2 in the nation. It’s the only school that’s #2 on Wall Street and #5 in tech.

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Anonymous wrote:All/most of the comments bashing UVA are from the same poster. The comments are of the same flavor, repeated over and over again. The poster starts and visits multiple ranking posts with the goal to bash UVA. Sometimes, they just respond “UVA” to a post on overrated schools (a thread they start). In other cases, they overstate the situation. Like on this thread, they keep repeating that “UVA is dead last.” It’s pretty specific language and wrong. When did placing 30 on a list of 4000 four-year schools make one “dead last”? They also consistently trot out the notion that UVA is Old South, racist, and a good-old-boy network. Not true. To have such a compulsion to hate the school, the poster obviously has an axe to grind.

Just looked at the rest of the "feeder" lists on the site linked to by OP.

Turns out UVA's #30 spot for Wall Street is its high-water mark. Completely missing from lists like tech and engineering. And amazingly doesn't show up on ANY OF THE MANY per capita lists for careers or grad/professional schools.

What exactly does a UVA grad do other than hang out on DCUM?

An excellent question. Preening about how they're better than T10 private schools and looking down on the poors, probably.

Are you just responding to your own ignorant question now? Seek therapy.

Uh no, I'm the DP who responded to the question above, and I'm a completely different poster. You need help.

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Anonymous wrote:All/most of the comments bashing UVA are from the same poster. The comments are of the same flavor, repeated over and over again. The poster starts and visits multiple ranking posts with the goal to bash UVA. Sometimes, they just respond “UVA” to a post on overrated schools (a thread they start). In other cases, they overstate the situation. Like on this thread, they keep repeating that “UVA is dead last.” It’s pretty specific language and wrong. When did placing 30 on a list of 4000 four-year schools make one “dead last”? They also consistently trot out the notion that UVA is Old South, racist, and a good-old-boy network. Not true. To have such a compulsion to hate the school, the poster obviously has an axe to grind.

Just looked at the rest of the "feeder" lists on the site linked to by OP.

Turns out UVA's #30 spot for Wall Street is its high-water mark. Completely missing from lists like tech and engineering. And amazingly doesn't show up on ANY OF THE MANY per capita lists for careers or grad/professional schools.

What exactly does a UVA grad do other than hang out on DCUM?

An excellent question. Preening about how they're better than T10 private schools and looking down on the poors, probably.

Are you just responding to your own ignorant question now? Seek therapy.

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Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna? Seriously?

Why is that so hard to believe?

Because it is a very small school that isn’t a big name. Most people have never heard of it.

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Anonymous wrote:All/most of the comments bashing UVA are from the same poster. The comments are of the same flavor, repeated over and over again. The poster starts and visits multiple ranking posts with the goal to bash UVA. Sometimes, they just respond “UVA” to a post on overrated schools (a thread they start). In other cases, they overstate the situation. Like on this thread, they keep repeating that “UVA is dead last.” It’s pretty specific language and wrong. When did placing 30 on a list of 4000 four-year schools make one “dead last”? They also consistently trot out the notion that UVA is Old South, racist, and a good-old-boy network. Not true. To have such a compulsion to hate the school, the poster obviously has an axe to grind.

Just looked at the rest of the "feeder" lists on the site linked to by OP.

Turns out UVA's #30 spot for Wall Street is its high-water mark. Completely missing from lists like tech and engineering. And amazingly doesn't show up on ANY OF THE MANY per capita lists for careers or grad/professional schools.

What exactly does a UVA grad do other than hang out on DCUM?

An excellent question. Preening about how they're better than T10 private schools and looking down on the poors, probably.

Anonymous wrote:All/most of the comments bashing UVA are from the same poster. The comments are of the same flavor, repeated over and over again. The poster starts and visits multiple ranking posts with the goal to bash UVA. Sometimes, they just respond “UVA” to a post on overrated schools (a thread they start). In other cases, they overstate the situation. Like on this thread, they keep repeating that “UVA is dead last.” It’s pretty specific language and wrong. When did placing 30 on a list of 4000 four-year schools make one “dead last”? They also consistently trot out the notion that UVA is Old South, racist, and a good-old-boy network. Not true. To have such a compulsion to hate the school, the poster obviously has an axe to grind.

Just looked at the rest of the "feeder" lists on the site linked to by OP.

Turns out UVA's #30 spot for Wall Street is its high-water mark. Completely missing from lists like tech and engineering. And amazingly doesn't show up on ANY OF THE MANY per capita lists for careers or grad/professional schools.

What exactly does a UVA grad do other than hang out on DCUM?

Absolute numbers are more important than per capita for these types of listings. For a huge diverse university like Michigan which is so strong in so many disciplines, it will never make a top showing in per capita lists for Wall Street. Yet it is one of the big target feeder schools.

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking

This is from the same source as the OP