Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:55     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:Someone has to do the back office jobs. That's where Bucknell fits in. As they say, it's a living.


What kind of pay and working hours do these mundane (?) back office jobs have?
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:54     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:That’s so disappointing, OP. I would feel so sad if that was my kid’s goal.

It’s a career choice. Not everyone can be starry eyed researchers or artists. Someone gotta fill those finance seats.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:52     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
That’s so disappointing, OP. I would feel so sad if that was my kid’s goal.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:50     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:I know you said East Coast, but I think any kid with his stats/goals should look closely at CMC. Even if he does not apply, he will see the competition and it might better inform his own search. They do what he is looking for extremely well. Good luck to him!

Agreed. Claremont McKenna does extremely well at getting students into finance and government careers.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:43     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Look at the NESCAC schools, they all send people to Wall Street even if not a Bulge Bracket firm. G'town, BC, and ND if you're Catholic. Public Ivies all send lots of kids - UVa, MI, Berkeley, UCLA, etc. NYU is great even not if in Stern - kids can study Econ or CS and then do internships during the school year.

I went to NYU and had a ton of friends do that at hedge funds, PE shops, foreign banks, etc. It's the side door to Wall Street and its wide open.

Bucknell is fine and your kid will have a career, though it might be more middle market focused.


agree with most above but i do think that schools like Bucknell, Lehigh, and Lafayette place much better on the street than the top Nescacs - and I’ve had one kid at a top 3 Nescac and one from the other group. More pre-professional vibe at the Pa schools, and surprisingly they do get plenty of looks at top IB and MBB programs - just have to grind with alumni

I’m sorry but you’re just wrong. Williams fills so many more seats than any of those schools can imagine, same with amherst and Claremont McKenna, and Middlebury. It’s okay for Bucknell to be above average, but no reason to lie about it
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:41     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
I know you said East Coast, but I think any kid with his stats/goals should look closely at CMC. Even if he does not apply, he will see the competition and it might better inform his own search. They do what he is looking for extremely well. Good luck to him!
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:40     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:Look at the NESCAC schools, they all send people to Wall Street even if not a Bulge Bracket firm. G'town, BC, and ND if you're Catholic. Public Ivies all send lots of kids - UVa, MI, Berkeley, UCLA, etc. NYU is great even not if in Stern - kids can study Econ or CS and then do internships during the school year.

I went to NYU and had a ton of friends do that at hedge funds, PE shops, foreign banks, etc. It's the side door to Wall Street and its wide open.

Bucknell is fine and your kid will have a career, though it might be more middle market focused.


agree with most above but i do think that schools like Bucknell, Lehigh, and Lafayette place much better on the street than the top Nescacs - and I’ve had one kid at a top 3 Nescac and one from the other group. More pre-professional vibe at the Pa schools, and surprisingly they do get plenty of looks at top IB and MBB programs - just have to grind with alumni
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:37     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Someone has to do the back office jobs. That's where Bucknell fits in. As they say, it's a living.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:31     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Look at the NESCAC schools, they all send people to Wall Street even if not a Bulge Bracket firm. G'town, BC, and ND if you're Catholic. Public Ivies all send lots of kids - UVa, MI, Berkeley, UCLA, etc. NYU is great even not if in Stern - kids can study Econ or CS and then do internships during the school year.

I went to NYU and had a ton of friends do that at hedge funds, PE shops, foreign banks, etc. It's the side door to Wall Street and its wide open.

Bucknell is fine and your kid will have a career, though it might be more middle market focused.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:26     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:the venom towards Bucknell is hysterical - and sadly, not surprising on this site. The elitism from these try hard parents obsessed with the ivy brand would be comical if it wasn’t just so shocking. Google Bucknell Goldman linkedin - and you will see that no, it isn’t impossible to land a job at a top firm with a Bucknell degree - in fact, there are a ton - probably as many Bucknell grads there as there are from Georgetown, or Duke, or Brown, etc. So to the know it alls who like to pontificate on this site- let’s get the facts straight pls

Cornell has 10x the amount of alum at Goldman lmao. Georgetown has 5x the amount, same for Duke. Why do you feel the need to make Bucknell sound better than it is
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:21     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:the venom towards Bucknell is hysterical - and sadly, not surprising on this site. The elitism from these try hard parents obsessed with the ivy brand would be comical if it wasn’t just so shocking. Google Bucknell Goldman linkedin - and you will see that no, it isn’t impossible to land a job at a top firm with a Bucknell degree - in fact, there are a ton - probably as many Bucknell grads there as there are from Georgetown, or Duke, or Brown, etc. So to the know it alls who like to pontificate on this site- let’s get the facts straight pls

It’s not venom. It’s just not that great of a school, not comparable to the ivies like someone is suggesting. It’s an okay school, some kids there end up on Wall Street, but it’s not that common.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:18     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
the venom towards Bucknell is hysterical - and sadly, not surprising on this site. The elitism from these try hard parents obsessed with the ivy brand would be comical if it wasn’t just so shocking. Google Bucknell Goldman linkedin - and you will see that no, it isn’t impossible to land a job at a top firm with a Bucknell degree - in fact, there are a ton - probably as many Bucknell grads there as there are from Georgetown, or Duke, or Brown, etc. So to the know it alls who like to pontificate on this site- let’s get the facts straight pls
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 16:02     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Read the Wall Street journal article today about the suicides from the 100 hour weeks.


I haven’t read it, but that’s really sad and horrible news.

I hope this younger generation entering the workplace seeks out balance between work and life.


They are deaths…not suicides.

It’s bad enough that they are dying from the hours, but why you have to then make up that they are suicides…means I guess you didn’t actually read the article.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 15:49     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:Read the Wall Street journal article today about the suicides from the 100 hour weeks.


I haven’t read it, but that’s really sad and horrible news.

I hope this younger generation entering the workplace seeks out balance between work and life.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 15:47     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:LMAO

I'm guessing this entire thread is the handiwork of the same crazed Bucknell booster who constantly posts that Bucknell is the big feeder to The Street. It's a pretty absurd claim, but you've got to admire the booster's tenacity (as well as their certainty that we'll all be impressed with "The Street" lingo

My guess is that OP is fake, and is the booster finding a way to start another chain that they can populate with Bucknell posts.

And for anyone actually coming on here to learn, the one word answer is Penn. That's the big feeder, and you don't even have to go to Wharton. Just get a Penn degree.

Next best options are all NY: NYU, Baruch, Fordham, Columbia.


+ 1. Who is this Bucknell poster?!? Getting old.
+ 1 to Baruch