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couple different things to think about 1. generalist or industry focus? ghl/bx are generalist, evr and laz are broken into industries 2. rx or m&a ghl does both m&a and rx. not sure how your lazard offer is worded, but they split out their rx division. 3. people - who did you like? 4. exit opps my understand is that bx is a step above the rest in this aspect.

 

Smithjohnny, how do you have all of these offers, from my time, these banks don't start formally interviewing till later. Did you accelerate? Thanks for the insight.

 

Is this a joke? BX.

The exit opps are a cut above, the hours are on par with GHL, and the prestige is out the ass.

Just look at the summers you'll be working with on LinkedIn. I know a lot of people at each of the places you're looking at, and it should be very obvious to you, even after a cursory glance, that the bx class is superior.

I certainly know that the best of the best from my school consistently choose bx r&r / m&a over everything else (including bx pe). I was at another top group for my summer, but BX is BX.

 
FernandoTorres9

Is this a joke? BX.

The exit opps are a cut above, the hours are on par with GHL, and the prestige is out the ass.

Just look at the summers you'll be working with on LinkedIn. I know a lot of people at each of the places you're looking at, and it should be very obvious to you, even after a cursory glance, that the bx class is superior.

I certainly know that the best of the best from my school consistently choose bx r&r / m&a over everything else (including bx pe). I was at another top group for my summer, but BX is BX.

Umm not true. I go to a top target (HYP) and the smartest kids from my school have NOT gone to BX M&A. The smartest ones I have seen are at GS top groups / BX R&R.
 
dreamer1992 FernandoTorres9:

Is this a joke? BX.

The exit opps are a cut above, the hours are on par with GHL, and the prestige is out the ass.

Just look at the summers you'll be working with on LinkedIn. I know a lot of people at each of the places you're looking at, and it should be very obvious to you, even after a cursory glance, that the bx class is superior.

I certainly know that the best of the best from my school consistently choose bx r&r / m&a over everything else (including bx pe). I was at another top group for my summer, but BX is BX.

Umm not true. I go to a top target (HYP) and the smartest kids from my school have NOT gone to BX M&A. The smartest ones I have seen are at GS top groups / BX R&R.

I know a kid who chose M&A over GS TMT. It's all arbitrary and we can't deduce sweeping generalizations about which is better.

 
dreamer1992 FernandoTorres9:

Is this a joke? BX.

The exit opps are a cut above, the hours are on par with GHL, and the prestige is out the ass.

Just look at the summers you'll be working with on LinkedIn. I know a lot of people at each of the places you're looking at, and it should be very obvious to you, even after a cursory glance, that the bx class is superior.

I certainly know that the best of the best from my school consistently choose bx r&r / m&a over everything else (including bx pe). I was at another top group for my summer, but BX is BX.

Umm not true. I go to a top target (HYP) and the smartest kids from my school have NOT gone to BX M&A. The smartest ones I have seen are at GS top groups / BX R&R.

I find that questionable only because R&R has never hired anyone from Yale or Princeton, and they've had maybe 3 harvard kids over the past 4 years. Maybe that's changed with the newest class, but as far as I know they hire over 50% from Penn. M&A hires a lot more from Yale and Harvard.

 
dreamer1992

Also if the big kick from BX M&A is the exit opps then why would anyone choose it over BX PE? Why not go directly to PE?

BX PE is a brutal place to work, and it's a 3 year and out program which puts you in a rather awkward position for business school. Not saying I wouldn't have taken it over banking though.

 

Interesting. So what do the analysts at BX PE do after 3 years? Is the advisable thing then to do 2 years in banking at a top group and then join PE as an associate?

 
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This is an incredibly stupid thread. To settle this:

1) OP, you do not have an offer from BX M&A's NYC office. They have filled their class. 2) From the summer intern class, 1 kid from R&R and 1 kid from M&A turned down PE. Both are going back.
3) You can get offers from multiple groups at BX. 4) The best BX interns did not even look at going to the buyside out of undergrad. All who were given offers accepted within a week. 5) M&A and R&R are both awesome groups. You'll get interviews everywhere if you're good, so splitting hairs is futile. If you end up in this situation, pick the group that you find more interesting. If you think you want to do distressed debt, you'll probably like R&R more; whereas, if you're more interested in getting a broader experience, you'll probably like M&A more. To be clear, you can go anywhere from either group. 6) The best people don't consistently go to any one group. It's a foolish debate. All that matters is that M&A and R&R consistently attract terrific talent. Very, very few people turn down either group.

 

Probably the only post people need to read in this entire thread. BX M&A's class is indeed full (everyone has accepted), and OP does not have an outstanding offer. All summers who were extended offers accepted within less than a week.

 
ScrubCentral

Probably the only post people need to read in this entire thread. BX M&A's class is indeed full (everyone has accepted), and OP does not have an outstanding offer. All summers who were extended offers accepted within less than a week.

I love how people make new accounts just to avoid getting Monkey Shit LOL
 

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