Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:48     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:Wait. So OP posted the question at 11:31 AM, and then literally within one minute the "Bucknell/The Street" poster just happens to have read it *and* responded...

...and then in the next 45 minutes there are seven more posts about Bucknell?



Bucknell marketing team has its A game on.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:47     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wait. So OP posted the question at 11:31 AM, and then literally within one minute the "Bucknell/The Street" poster just happens to have read it *and* responded...

...and then in the next 45 minutes there are seven more posts about Bucknell?


I preferred to call the Bucknell poster "pipeline" as they usually lead with "Bucknell is a pipeline to The Street"


Maybe he means Sesame Street.


Oh! Been wondering how to get there! Maybe he can tell me.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:47     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Trinity College would be a target.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:47     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
This is silly, he's 17. He's still a kid. Tell him to get an internship during college and see what it's like, then he can decide if it's for him. I can probably count on one hand the people I know who ended up in the career they wanted when they were 17.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:46     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:ND or Bucknell - Assuming you got into both, which is better.


I would choose Bucknell if the goal is Wall Street, but you can't lose with either.

This is delusional. Bucknell is nothing compared to ND on Wall Street.


I am laughing as well.
Even Bucknell students would rather go to Notre Dame.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:45     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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?

Not great pay, typically 50- maybe 70k entry, little career progression, and typically 50-80 (this is rarer) hours per week. It’s like an elevated stressful typical job


Again…this isn’t true…there is career progression for college educated kids. There are quite a few HS grads / Associate Degree back office jobs that are basically hourly jobs which are different.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:44     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Sorry to hear that, OP.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:40     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:
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?

Not great pay, typically 50- maybe 70k entry, little career progression, and typically 50-80 (this is rarer) hours per week. It’s like an elevated stressful typical job
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:39     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:
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?


You can do very well if you stay and move up in the ranks. Top compliance and other senior back office folks make millions as those are senior positions.

Just that it will normally take 20+ years to get there…your hours actually go up as you get more senior…you usually start at 40 hours but then you are probably 50-60 if you are getting to Director Level.

You won’t see $10MM+ bonuses like bankers and traders…but you also won’t get the axe as quickly as some of those folks.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:35     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
To be so young and so soulless…
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:34     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wait. So OP posted the question at 11:31 AM, and then literally within one minute the "Bucknell/The Street" poster just happens to have read it *and* responded...

...and then in the next 45 minutes there are seven more posts about Bucknell?


I preferred to call the Bucknell poster "pipeline" as they usually lead with "Bucknell is a pipeline to The Street"


Maybe he means Sesame Street.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:27     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:Wait. So OP posted the question at 11:31 AM, and then literally within one minute the "Bucknell/The Street" poster just happens to have read it *and* responded...

...and then in the next 45 minutes there are seven more posts about Bucknell?


I preferred to call the Bucknell poster "pipeline" as they usually lead with "Bucknell is a pipeline to The Street"
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:20     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Fairfield
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:18     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Wait. So OP posted the question at 11:31 AM, and then literally within one minute the "Bucknell/The Street" poster just happens to have read it *and* responded...

...and then in the next 45 minutes there are seven more posts about Bucknell?

Anonymous
Post 08/13/2024 17:04     Subject: Kid wants to work on Wall Street
Anonymous wrote:
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.


OP's kid's stats won't get him into Penn, let alone Wharton. That was the point of the thread. Cousin landed on the street via Harvard but kid needs an alternate route due to stats.


Shouldn't the cousin be best placed to figure it out? Doesn't he have any non-Goldman Sachs friends? If cousin thinks it's low probability, then student shouldn't torque his whole life around emulating the cousin at a lesser school.