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Focus less on IB recruitment, more on school culture. Top LACs(Amherst and Williams mainly) along with Ivies will all give you a good enough pipeline that you will get a seat if you try. Focus way more on the culture of the schools. Williams is a tiny rural school. More than half the Ivy league is in urban areas(Penn, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Yale), 2 rural(Cornell, Dartmouth), and one is in the weird in between(Princeton). That means very different lifestyles and very different quality of life. If you love the outdoors, nature, and peace and quiet, Williams is great. If you love diversity of food options, urban environments, walkable areas, and hustle and bustle then Williams would be terrible.
Hi, thanks for the great info! I do agree that I should look for whichever school's culture fits me the best, but I honestly don't think I can get into a better college, so I'm going to have to settle with this lol. I currently attend a top boarding school, and Williams is even more rural than here. I know I most likely can't get into ivies, but do you think I would be better off applying to schools like NYU or UMich? I know I can't get into their business schools, but I can try to transfer into them. Do you have any advice? And also which one of these schools is the best for IB?
If you already have an offer from Williams, you can probably get into at least 1 ivy. Also, there's plenty of other great IB feeders, or great schools in general. Vandy is amazing for consulting, NU places well, Rice does great for Houston IB, ND is solid, GTown is also very solid. There's way too many options out there that you could potentially apply to for you to just limit yourself to Williams and lower ranked schools. Branch out. Look at all potential options. And remember, you could end up doing something different from IB at the end of the day. A lot of people get deadset on a path, then realize it isn't for them, so don't overindex for a path that could be different from what you end up doing.
If you attend a top boarding school, don't think you can get into a better college and are a white student athlete you're going to love Williams.
Yale and urban 💀💀
But yeah Williams has a crazy GS pipeline and places super well.
Yale is basically in down town new haven. You can very easily get into the city if you need to.
Williams is great for IB. Depends on whether you want to apply to the Ivies or take what you have—your preference. Prestige-wise, most circles view Williams similarly to the Ivies, especially in more academic settings.
I go to a similar NESCAC, and while my opportunities are equal to my friends at the Ivies, I still wish I had access to the diversity and scale they offer. Rural New England gets boring fast. I just knew I wasn't going to get into an Ivy and hedged my bets.
A pro of LACs is that the culture is extremely chill. I'm literally a bum and still placed into MBB, all my peers from Ivies were presidents of consulting clubs and had been casing since freshman fall while I randomly decided on this two weeks before the application deadlines. Back when I thought I wanted IB I got interviews at multiple top Rx groups and EBs with no finance internships on my resume. It's absurd how low the standards are for us
What sport did you play? It's giving lacrosse.
I'm a nerdy Asian guy who last played a sport (if you count JV as "sports," that is) in middle school.
Can attest to this, saw my peers at Berkeley/other top schools grind to get into the best clubs and a lot didn’t make it. Went to a nescac, just signed up for the investment association and broke into the buyside. Barely had to study, very chill college life other than a ton of networking calls.
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