Worst Universities in IB
What schools produce the worst Investment Banking Analysts?
Would be curious to hear what universities produce the lowest performing analysts, the worst cultural/fit analysts, etc.
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NYU
Shii bruh imma change that rep once I get into the industry big truss
(My application won't make it past the hirevue)
🤣 real
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What's wrong with internationals in your opinion?
Stern doesn’t have that many internationals compared to the rest of nyu legit 95% are Asians from NJ or California
The school is peak midwit and/or wealthy international.
Aren’t you describing substantially all of the working professionals in NYC?
Went to boarding school in the Northeast for my last two years of HS after transferring in from a top public school. At both places all of my classmates are now in NYC and this describes them perfectly.
The prevailing attitudes across the Northeast from my experience is that people think they’re too good to attend a flagship state school even when they’re not wealthy. I had many classmates opt to pay sticker and in a handful of cases go into 200K or more debt to attend places like Curry College, Norwich University, Endicott, Pace, Sacred Heart, Fairfield U, etc. over going to UMASS Amherst or UCONN on scholarship because they were public schools. When I decided to attend a flagship state school people acted like I was about to serve time in prison. It all worked out but admittedly it is still annoying when I get shit from a grad of one of those schools in professional settings. How those tiny private schools with minuscule alumni bases are able to charge $60K/year with mediocre job prospects is beyond me.
(Not from the US, don't know that much) But Stern has a really good rep, 2nd to Wharton?
Just curious, but what makes their students so bad?
(LMAO at the MS for asking a genuine question)
One, it’s only up there because not many actual top schools have undergrad business schools. Two, I’ve been more impressed with kids from Ross, Haas, Johnson, McIntyre, etc.
CUNY School(s) - Baruch! How?
IU Kelley
Oof. Why?
It’s a meme lol IU has a decent brand in the eyes of people in the industry who have >3 YoE.
Duke
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Congrats on Duke
Georgetown
Least obvious georgetown downvotes
I heard there was an exceptional Georgetown summer analyst at RBC this year
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If it’s Brown, flush it down.
Anything UNC xxx except chapel hill
congrats on Chapel Hill
I wish
Babson
Anecdotally, the 3 worst analysts I have worked with were from Harvard, Penn (Wharton) & UVA. 2 of them were student athletes and 1 was diversity.
NYU & Michigan. Worst of the best. Always leads to insecure hardo vibes.
What do we think the worst Canadian school is?
I saw this thread a while ago talking about how bad Queen's kids were:
W fellow qcomm hater
Still stand by this. The sense of entitlement, even in a bad market, and lack of self awareness continues to astound me.
SMU hands down
People from SMU can be technically sound but almost all of them are somewhat socially awkward/weird
Not even, they are bad all the way around
Notre Dame. Kids are incredibly annoying
Sometimes stanford kids seem to have enormous superiority complexes. Like yes we get it you went to stanford…
I’m guessing your experience is mostly from the startup crowd. I didn’t go there but am friendly with probably a dozen or so people that went there working corporate jobs (IB/PE/VC/CO/Tech) and they’re all very well adjusted.
Some can be socially awkward but from what I’ve seen none of them are pretentious like the boarding school crowd and are humble. The kids at the ivy’s in my experience are the ones who can’t shut up about where they go to school.
Williams/Amherst
What are we saying for London? KCL?
Incoming KCL students trying to claim they're a part of the 'Golden Triangle'
KCL has all of the bad parts of London unis (full of international hardos) without any of the good parts (students actually being smart)
at this point, we're just naming every target/semi-target
At a boutique in San Francisco and our best analysts have consistently been from Waterloo university from Canada
Is this Moelis SF?
Congrats on Moelis!
In my experience the kids at Waterloo are fucking smart, and they’re humble because they’re surrounded by genius stem kids and go to a non-target.
140k base btw
WashU
When you’re school hasn’t been listed because it’s a non target
your*
pls fix, non-target
Lafayette College
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Not analyst level but Tuck MBA associates blow
In my experience the undergrads aren’t the brightest either. Worked closely in a group made up primarily of Dartmouth kids and none of them knew their asses from telephone poles.
Non-targets generally are just happy to be there and doing their best to not waste an opportunity barring a few odd cases. People can trash top Ivy’s and other high targets for being douches or not rightfully being there, but what really makes people insufferable is deep seated insecurity and overcompensation of lifelong bronze medal holders—the rich manlets of IB.
These are those that earned their right to be there, but feel the need every day to make sure you know that. They are the low value edit, micromanager types as mangers and as an analyst they behave sharp elbowed thinking the world is 0 sum and they should try to sabotage others to get an advantage.
If you are an intern and have them as an analyst, they are the type that grin and say, “welcome to IB, kiddo” your first late night because they get off on the feeling of superiority having worked the job longer than you, rather than acting sympathetic like a well adjusted person.
We get it, you were president of IB club and a social misfit, stop flaming the interns for not knowing shortcuts.
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