Gustavus Adolphus College

I'm asking because I only see a few people working in the industry from GAC (my current college) but I'd say only a handful of our econ/biz majors know what investment banking is.

I'm just curious to how we stand out in regional firms compared to places like St. Thomas, U of M, St. Olaf, etc

You are on the level of St. Johns or below. Honestly, the only shot you would have in IB is working for Piper, Goldsmith Aggio Helms (if you were lucky) or Meccanti. I know people from the Carlson school at the U who are literally the top 5% of the class and still had to fight very hard to get out east to a BB.

Ouch, worse than St. Johns? Ewww. Thats debatable, even if I am a little biased.

I should probably transfer to the U and save myself about 30 grand. Not to mention ALOT easier course load.

Interestingly enough, I found one GAC graduate who was former senior economist for Goldman Sachs who is now serving time for insider trading!! Probably doesnt help our school rep too much.

yeah. What makes you think they have an easier courseload? I know people at GAC that say it is extremely easy. Carlson is spotty: you get some hard courses and some easy ones.

Ive taken classes at both UofM liberal arts and audited at Carlson and have a 4.0.

GAC biz department usually only gives a handful of people A's in each class. Class average in my INTRO microecon class was about a B-

And our classes are always 4-5 days a week. U of M Carlson usually has classes 2 days a week, 3 max.

Didn't GAC recently get rid of its SAT/ACT requirement...and I'm pretty sure there's an MD at a boutique Minneapolis bank from GAC.

I don't know what you are talking about considering Carlson now uses the median grade requirement for its grading. I took financial accounting there in a class of 50 people and was one on 3 As. It was much easier before they used it, evidentally.

Yeah they did. I'm kind of disappointed. It seems like there admissions values quantity over quality in recent years and our reputation has suffered because of it. We got dinged off the US News top LAC list because of some technicality and were in some stupid "unranked" category now. I dont get it.

There are a few MDs from GAC. One at Piper and one at Goldsmith Aggio. One is also a partner at an M&A boutique. His son is in my class

What year are you?

Must be harder now Pmcgui? We (GAC) had a substitute lecturer from Carlson (who was apparently a Harvard PhD) and we had to teach HIM how to draw a supply and demand graph because he had forgotten. It was embarrassing. True story.

3 out of 50 is pretty bad. My financial accounting class got about 5 A's out of a class of 30, also not so good but that seems to be the norm in the accounting department.

I'd rather not go into too much detail varjar. Where do you go to school? You from Minnesota?

Also I'd like to say that Carlson IS a great school and definitely no cake walk. I just question if its regional reputation is THAT much better than GACs (despite what US NEWS might say). Nationally, obviously, thats a totally different story.

Haha hopefully I wont get flamed for that.

Yea I go to a LAC in Northfield. I think UMN is probably better for those looking to get into banking/finance, though the two schools, GAC and the U, are pretty similar prestige-wise.

Thats a great LAC up there in Northfield, Varjar ;)

If I was back in H.S., I would have concentrated a little less on guitar and chicks and more on my studies and would have tried to get in "that one."

Live and learn, though.

I go to NYU Stern. I am from edina though. Took some classes there.

Ha, cake eater...

...kidding; couldnt resist.

Doubt anyone else here will know what I'm talking about anyway

Had to laugh @ the cake eater comment. I'm from Eagan and go to Tulane.

Don't forget Arcturus there are two LACs in Northfield, although I suspect you are thinking of the correct one in this case...

Hmm we should all have a get together someday.

Start a "future MN bankers" club or something.

I dont know how its like for you guys but its hard finding people who are REALLY "into" finance in MN. As I said before most of my classmates dont know much about I-banking.

Everybody thats motivated at GAC is either pre-Med or pre-Law (something like 35% of students go directly to grad school which is pretty astounding). The people in finance/econ/biz are the jocks or people that couldnt hack it through the math/physics department. We only had like a dozen accounting grads last year too!