How is Wash U viewed?
Strongly considering Wash U Olin. I've heard good and bad about it. Does it have good Chicago connections? Also, as I'm not entirely certain about ibanking, what other aspects does it offer? If I wanted to work on the west coast in tech, would it be impossible to get into? Thanks
washU is fine but there are better schools competing in the Chicago area (Michigan, Northwestern, Chicago, etc) also some schools with less business school rep than washU are closer to chicago area with larger class sizes (UIUC, Wisconsin, IU, Purdue, etc) also, do try a few early actions with the ED if that's what you want. If washU turns you down for ED, then you'd be in trouble if you don't have other EAs and you'd have less choices to pick from. I made that mistake back then
Wash U isn't generally known for its business school but I can tell you that Olin UG placements are fantastic and its reputation is rising. If you look at the BSBA employment report, it highlights 98% placement 3 months after graduation with a median base salary of $60,000 (13% IB placement). All of the UG's I spoke to either went to BB's or to MBB. That said, Wash U places much better in NY then it does in Chicago. In general, people from St. Louis don't like Chicago, and vice versa. Additionally, a lot of the UGs, for whatever reason, are originally New Yorkers (high % Jewish population as well).
How would you compare it to Amherst, Vandy, and Northwestern, and do the people who get to ibanking from WashU only get them because they have connections?
Can't compare it to those schools. I don't know anything about them. If I had to guess, I would say that Amherst and Northwestern are better and Vandy is on par. You should do more research.
You have great schools to compare with. I would agree that overall Vandy is par and Amherst/Northwestern is above However, they're not directly comparable because of some external reasons.
Vandy is a southern powerhouse with Emory as its only competitor around Amherst is a LAC but obviously very well-established. Northwestern will be a strong bet, and it is only 20 mins from Chicago downtown. WashU though, will probably be the only school that offers BSBA major. You probably only have Economics major for the other schools.
Why did this get so much Ms?
Because it's a delusional lie that the author wrote because he went to WUSTL for an MSF. He got dinged at a bunch of other schools and posted shit about their programs. He then goes on to praise his own school feeding his ego. He likes to spend his time on this forum writing long passionate comments about how right he is and how wrong you are, fluffing it with language that makes it sound like he knows what he's talking about when he really doesn't. He's even been caught on Poets and Quants "10 Comments That Made Us LOL In 2015" bashing MIT's MBA program. MIT was probably one of the top MFin programs he applied to and got dinged.
My guess is that he never got over it and that attacking the schools that rejected him is how he copes with it. Copium is one hell of a drug.
Coming from a BB in nyc, it's okay, but not a core school so need to have a very good resume to get a look. Midwest MM ibd and consulting placement overall are solid.
Wash U: Recent Alumni (Originally Posted: 11/28/2010)
Dunno how anonymous we should keep this, but I'm curious what recent alumni we have at NY BB's. You guys know of any?
I know of a few that graduated win 2010
I only know one that graduated in 2010 and went BB.... but otherwise
we have a lot at JPM fig
a few in BarCap Index, Portfolio and Risk Solutions (Research division), 1 in Industrials
Goldman Sachs - Mostly sales, 1 research, 1 prop trading,
Citi - 2 in banking that I know of
Credit Suisse - 1 in HC banking
Oh and there is a MD at Blackstone (don't know his name and yeah its not a BB)
Let me know if you need names.
Recommend the finance trek (assuming you are a freshman/sophomore) as you will meet a lot of alums.
Dang, weak showing for Wash U. Nah I'm a senior, and just want to see where we have alum, and maybe hit them up in the city sometime. I know of a Blackstone analyst and that's pretty much it.
Actually, I'd love to have names, but the alumni may have a problem with having their info given out on a message board. I figure they would probably be open to it if their info was given out to Wash U students only, but that means I would probably need to filter through group membership requests more vigorously somehow. What do you think?
send me a pm
I went to the NY trip and picked up lots of business cards from recent alums. Be more than happy to share them.
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