Semi Target for Banking

Right now I'll be applying for colleges that might give me a solid education for finance/banking/pe, but I don't have the best grades/test scores and so I'm trying for schools right outside target range.

I wanted to get input on the following schools:

Rice, Univ of Rochester, Univ of Southern California (Marshall), Tufts, Vanderbilt.

I asked on a previous thread about LAC's and it was insisted that the list my guidance counselor gave me were all non targets except williams/amherst so the above schools are where I'm really looking at. Apparently bowdoin, wesleyan, brandeis, bucknell, colgate and wake aren't worth it.

 
Best Response

Gut instinct is that USC or Vanderbilt are best options. USC is a business school, so you have have semi-strong OCR, but I imagine that it mainly is focused on LA/SF. I go to Vanderbilt and confirm that BAML and Goldman Sachs both recruit on-campus for NYC IBD; Morgan Stanley does a resume drop, and some other BB's (Deutsche Bank, etc) recruit for non-NYC locations (e.g. Florida). Rochester/Tufts/Rochester seem like less ideal choices, but admittedly, I don't know as much about them.

 

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