Basically necessary to be a varsity athlete to get BB IB from Bowdoin?
I saw some Linkedin profiles from Bowdoin alums who are working at BB/EBs, and literally EVERY single one of them seems to be either doing a varsity sport like lax/swimming/golf or AUTOMATICALLY finds themselves in a no-name LMM like Raymond James, RBC ECM, or MUFG lol.
On one of my older posts, the replies all agreed that sports don't matter as much at a DIII NESCAC school, but why is there such a trend for sports-BB IB at Bowdoin? I even heard that recruiting here is easier than top public schools due to the low interest and rich students; please clarify and thanks!
This reeks of entitlement ngl.. just work harder
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Why?
IB at NESCAC tends to attract athletes/athletes tend to put the most effort into the process. IB from a place like Bowdoin is completely up to you and recruiting might not be the most structured thing ever given the overall lack of interest, but if you put in the work with networking you should end up with an offer whether you are an athlete or not. Being an athlete does not influence your overall success with the process.
Yes it does - u can’t tell me that all the athletes with 0 finance experience just happened to get a lot of the top seats no questions asked. Spare me the “they are used to working hard” bs bc everyone trying for the field seriously is hardworking. Athletes def get a leg up in the process
Take a deep breath… admit you’re a beta… now apply to Deloitte
Athletes at top D1 programs don't! Because they have to stay on campus and train during the summers and dont have time for clubs, other activities etc! Its the Ivy athletes and DIII Athletes that have time to do summer internships and can join clubs and get involved on campus... just saying...
Look I get you’re probably mad but majority of athletes commit to their teams year round. You may get 2-3 weeks off if you’re lucky and even then you still have daily workouts and lifts sent to you. You act like anyone can just be a varsity athlete or even handle the commitment. Banks like this demonstrated commitment because banking is a similar dynamic. It’s not a job where you can just go off the grid for a month or turn your phone off for hours at a time. Plus, if an athlete can handle 5-6 hours of daily practice and lifts, perform near the top of their classes, learn the technicals and modelling, all while travelling 3-4 days a week, I’m pretty sure they can handle banking. A lack of experience is not a knock on their abilities since many of them could have done internships but were not able to/allowed to due to their sport. I was not a D1 athlete and I would not consider myself high level by any means but I was required to train year round and still had workouts between Christmas and New Years for context. I did a non-IB internship and ended up sleeping 4-5 hours a night if I was lucky. It certainly isn’t easier for athletes to get in, unless they were privileged enough to have the connections they had to put in IB hours for 3-4 years in order to get into the industry.
Do you go to Bowdoin? Not that many people are interested in IB, and 40% of the school consists of athletes.
why is finance interest so low? where do other grads go then
In true liberal arts fashion, it’s all random. There are tons of pre-med, law, non-profit, Fulbright, etc., sprinkled with the CS majors that enter tech. Some of my friends finished their teaching certificates while others began their PhD programs.
Maybe ~8-15 people actively prepare/recruit for IB out of a class of 500, but interest is definitely growing.
The reality is it's very hard if you're not an athlete at Bowdoin (or any NESCAC) because athletes largely want to hire athletes. If you're not DEI you're going to have a hard time without a lot of networking.
Bro wtf does being strong or having good cardiovascular endurance have to do with leveraged finance lol? If I'm dedicated why am I inherently "less" than a guy whose parents paid thousands of dollars for golf coaching for 15 years?
Didn't say it was right. I'm telling you how it is. Yes rich people gravitate towards rich people because they can relate culturally. It's unfair but nothing you can do about it except network your ass off
Forget the sport altogether. It’s the work ethic and mindset someone with an athletic background brings. They likely have spent majority of their life getting up insanely early for practices, working extremely late into the night to catch up on schoolwork after games and meets and have that buy-in when a team faced adversity. Depending on what sport they did they have managed to attend class, write tests and complete assignments under extreme fatigue and so banks can be somewhat assured that they can handle the working conditions. People also just have bias to those with similar experiences as them, not saying it’s right but it’s how all of us are. The sport also makes for interesting conversation between colleagues and small talk around the office.
I think your forgetting a main point. A HUGE % of the athletes as Bowdoin-Esque schools are already selecting for rich/nepo hires. Its not that you cant break in from a Bowdoin caliber of a school it is just that the athletes from NESCAC's already pre select for rich families from the Greenwich/Westchester/Long Island areas and they wouldve gotten an offer regardless of their school through nepo.
What do you mean by preselecting? Who does it? Do you mean that banks, AOs, or athletes preselect?
Your saying athletes at NESCAC schools get offers because they are athletes. Im saying that this is naive, athletes at NESCAC schools are already pre-selecting for wealthy connected individuals. If those athletes were normal students at other schools there would be similar outcomes
I’m a NESCAC athlete. Going to BB. Not everyone is a Nepo baby. Im from a low middle class background. Don’t think anyone really truly cared that I was an athlete in interviews. I had to go to practices/games, ~3+ hours a day on my sport, on top of networking, technicals, interviews, etc for recruiting process. Stop whining and just grind bro
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