Brown for investment banking?
Im a hs senior right now and am appling early decision to brown. Does anyone know the recruiting oppurtunities for ib from there and whether its considered a target?
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For what it is worth, I believe the perception of target schools around here is off. Technically speaking, a target school for a bank is where they have OCR. So if you go to a school that the bank doesn't do OCR at, you are at a non-target. For example, at Evercore schools like Dartmouth and Yale are "non-targets" since Evercore doesn't have a specific recruiting pipeline there, but these schools would be widely referred to as target schools.
I believe that once you are attending a certain top tier caliber of schools (and Brown certainly is part of that category) the concept of target or non-target disappears or becomes significantly less important. If you go to a good school people assume (for better or worse) that you are both smart and capable of doing the work. I went to a school that probably has some of the best recruiting around but ended up interning in IB at a BB as a sophomore and EB as a junior at places that considered my school a non-target or non-core school. So at the places I ended up working being at a "non-target" didn't hurt me at all.
Tl;dr If you go to a good enough school (and Brown is a fantastic school) target vs non-target kind of goes out the window.
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Ok thanks. Ya putting it that way makes it more logical. Also what do you think about USC for west coast banking jobs? My dad was talking to some bankers and they all regarded it highly but wondering what you think. I know it has no presence in the east so more worried about west
Anecdotally investment banking recruiting is strong for USC undergrad. Tons of alums at banks/private equity in the LA area.
Brown is definitely a target for most banks
General perception of a school is more important than being a target. My boutique does OCR at Indiana so Indiana is a target but the quota is ~2 kids a year. We don't do OCR at Dartmouth but end up with 2 or 3 per year anyway. So it's actually easier to get in from Dartmouth despite the fact that it's not a target.
Brown will get you looks from anywhere if you get in. Would not say the same about USC (at least for east coast). From experiences at 3 different firms (2 summers in BB IBD and FT at an EB), I saw the most kids from Columbia, Wharton, Michigan, Stern, UVA, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Indiana, Dartmouth, Ivey, Williams, Georgetown and Norte Dame in no particular order.
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