-luckily accepted to all 3, which does best in IB/consulting/finance opportunities and social life? i know they're not targets/semi-targets but which one has best opportunities/least cutthroat atmosphere (bonus if they get finance recruiting on campus!)
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If you want finance probably none of them. I imagine there are benefits to being at a school where people aren’t so hardo about this industry though
This is just plain wrong. The NESCAC's are vastly overrepresented given their size and the % of students interested in finance. Hamilton is not the top NESCAC for finance, but it does have David Solomon as an alum. Strong pipeline from Hamilton into a few BB's and there are a few other banks including Evercore that have the whole NESCAC as a target school (they do NESCAC'-wide recruiting).
I mean they’re a fine school but you definitely don’t see them as much as a ND/UVA/UMich. I just don’t get the value prop of putting up 80k+ a year at one of these if you are already intent on IB recruiting, which because they’re asking on this forum I would think is safe to assume. Different if you attribute a lot of value to liberal arts education / are a varsity athlete being recruited to play there IMO. I almost went to a Bucknell/Hamilton type of school when I knew I wanted IB, went to state flagship that cost nearly nothing in comparison and placed fine.
You can get a banking job at colgate and hamilton. I wouldnt go to Hamilton unless you're an athlete. I also wouldn't go to Colgate if you don't envision yourself being in greek life.
Thank you so much! i feel like im leaning toward colgate given the impressive alumni network and established macquarie pipeline - still TBD though
The Macquarie pipeline is no longer. More like BofA and Barclays (kinda)
Went to 1 of the 3 mentioned here, although several years ago so out of date on recruiting nuts and bolts.
Overall loved my LAC experience and agree with the poster above that these schools punch above their weight class in placement. It's not the same as going to a target where people immediately assume you're a stud, but the schools like this pass the "good enough" threshold to get a foot in the door, and can get you where you want to go if you put in the work.
The "non-cutthroat" dynamic you're looking for definitely exists -- I never met any hardos and they would have been blackballed immediately in a community that small. That said, the tradeoff is the finance "infrastructure" (clubs, case competitions, employer relationships at the school level) is likely significantly less robust than what a larger school might have.
The networks are less wide -- smaller n of alums, and there's some regional clustering (i.e. Davidson won't place as well outside the South, Hamilton / Colgate won't outside the Northeast) -- but are extremely deep. Alums a) don't get hit up nearly as much as target guys, and b) often feel a more personal connection to the school. I hear from ~mid single digit kids / year and help all of them where I can, my colleagues from targets get dozens of inbounds and ignore them all.
thank you so much!
Hamilton. David Solomon went there and I am sure they get GS looks. NESCAC guys also look out for NESCAC..
Don't go to the toothpaste college man
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