Is JHU well regarded out of undergrad for AM?
Hello AM monkeys!
I am trying to settle this debate with my younger brother (senior in high school), he is set on going into JHU (econ major) and wants to get into AM out of undergrad (which is hard, I know), and transition towards an HF or PE in the later stages. He also thinks of going into an M7 MBA afterward. I let him know that it is very difficult to break into AM, even if you attend an Ivy, and I am trying to persuade him to look into GTown, Vandy, or ND. Which one of us is correct, and how should we move forward upon this? Thanks a lot in advance, I will make sure to see what other forums will say as well!
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Probably it would help for T Rowe bc Baltimore but that's it? JHU kids are scarce on Wall Street in general, let alone in AM. It's a BME school. Georgetown is extremely well represented by contrast
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I honestly would consider JHU to be rather equal to Vandy since there isnt as much competition in JHU compared to Vandy and the schools arent that different in opps. At the end of the day, JHU is an amazing school, especially for premed; the only problem is that since very few there go the business route, theres not much of an alumni base to allow for easy paths into the industry. Georgetown, Notre Dame, and Duke would be great places to look at that are considered more of a "target" school, and maybe Columbia or Dartmouth too if they want to try.
Honestly though, if someone cant succeed with a semitarget school, its not on the school, its on them. But it would be pretty stupid of your brother to not even consider applying to schools that objectively give a better shot for success. I guess it all comes down to the culture and fit.
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JHU is definitely a top notch institution for everything from medicine to engineering to the liberal arts. However, not a ton of people from JHU in the past have gone into finance or AM. Having worked in IB previously, I never saw a single JHU person in NYC in finance in two years. I went to one of the institutions listed by the above prospect in CB, and can say that all of the other institutions are super well-represented due to their major alumni bases. JHU is missing that at pretty much every major financial institution, but one.
One of the most famous LO AM companies is based in Baltimore, T. Rowe Price. T. Rowe Price has long had a relationship with JHU for grabbing talent for its investment division through its Investment Fellows program. T. Rowe decided that it wanted to recruit top talent, without having to source the same group of kids trying to get into IB or doing SWE. They figured that this would be a great way to attract and train top talent and keep talent in the area.
In terms of business school, I'm uncertain, but almost every JHU student who went to any kind of graduate school went to a good one.
Recruiting out of JHU into finance is extremely hard. But it’s possible. if you can have the basic finance knowledge and the undergraduate school had an okay Wall Street trip to help with finance recruiting.
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