How do people on wall street actually perceive Stern?

How do people on wall street actually see stern? if I grind my ass off and actually get a top offer will that make up for the prestige difference between me and ivies? And how real is that difference in NYC? Obviously I can't show this shit in real life but I'm fucking pissed that I didn't get into any ivies, even got waitlisted at fucking uchicago, only got into stern and some slightly worse schools. It's even worse because I went to a great high school (as prestigious as it gets, you would have heard of it), and I can just imagine telling people I went there and then NYU and them continuing the conversation but thinking "damn, ___ but only Stern?" And its not even fair because I did my part to get into an ivy from there (top 10%, 1590). Anyways I haven't committed yet, lowkey might fuck it and go to UCLA and enjoy life and go to PwC, but yeah please someone give me some shit.

I guess i'm just playing into all the fucking stereotypes about stern of hardos, prestige obsessed, ivy reject, etc, but its so frustrating because what the fuck else am I supposed to do? 15 years ago I would be going to a H/Y/P and now I have to deal with morons for the rest of my life thinking they're better than me with their dartmouth/yale degree because the college application process favors retards from public schools over someone who graduated higher than international math olympiad winners and spent 4 years of high school studying 7 hours a day and fucking 0 bitches and drinking once in a blue moon. And I have to deal with this bullshit from my parents about how I'm going to a C tier school, and they keep calling that shit NYU, and how all my friends from home that I literally used to tutor are going to ivies and mit 

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Nobody gives a shit. You'll be viewed on the effort and product you produce at your job. Im the top analyst/associate in my office and constanlty get praise from clients and directors - way more than the silver spoon ivy's i work with. I went to a state school in another city and clawed my way here and now im on path on being a VP very soon. Nobody has ever asked me what school i went to. 

 

Only a Stern kid would post ts. Prestige is fairy dust as far as any decision maker with an ounce of respect is concerned.

 

Honestly, calm down and zoom out, because you’re thinking about a high school scoreboard way too much On wall street Stern is viewed as a very real target in NYC, and once recruiting starts nobody serious cares that you got waitlisted somewhere else, they care whether you can win interviews, perform, and make money. If you grind, land a top offer, and build a strong early career, that will absolutely outweigh some random 18-year-old admissions result faster than you think

 

Not reading all that but based on the title stern is perceived as hardo but not intelligent. You’ll be viewed as the kid who just memorized the answers to every technical and has no unique interests outside of “west village bars” and investment banking. You will not offer any unique / creative / interesting perspective ever and if the goal post is ever shifted outside of your hamster wheel you are fucked.

 

Is this really true? I saw on another post that Stern does better than cornell/peers on top end placements like HF

 

No one cares bro literally not saying this as a diss but in industry it’s just viewed like all other good schools

ignore title

 

Think you’re being way too myopic and bearish

The reality is that your long-term earnings potential and career longevity / whitespace will invariably be driven more by your intrinsic abilities and underlying business acumen

Speaking as a third-year analyst at a middle-market firm in NYC, I can definitely say “prestige” becomes increasingly less relevant as you gain experience

I have peers who went to Wharton that are absolute retards and are widely-known as bottom-bucket analysts, and, relatedly, directors from non-targets that are best-in-class (“BIC”)

Don’t let your school define you – prove yourself and you’ll land a coveted sell-side seat

 

Holy cortisol spike. Relax and enjoy your senior year, Stern is a great place to be. When you do get on campus, remember to enjoy your time— no one wants to hire a hard ass.

 

Ivy has become less prestigious nowadays. Filled with rich but dumb kids, and not-so-pro-athletes -- which is exactly like nyu stern. But stern wins in terms of proximity to NYC -- penetration of rich people and their secrete service body guards -- which is why baren trump attends it.

Basically, rich kids now prefer nyu over ivy, and smart kids get rejected by both nyu stern and ivy becuase nowadays college prestige is all about "who has the rich kid" game. So in that regard ... ivy is losing to nyu stern.

 

If you want to work on Wall Street and choose UCLA over Stern, and your reason for choosing UCLA is because you can't stomach the juxtaposition of the NYU brand with your fancy prep school . . honestly maybe becoming a PWC beach bum is a better fit for you.  Wall Street rewards grinders, not brand-obsessed prestige whores.

If you bristle at being called that, then good news, maybe that's not who you are.  And you can go to Stern and get a great job if you do pretty well there.

 

If kids from north bumblefuck redneck Canadian universities can break into Wall Street I think you'll be fine buddy

 

The worst part about stern is the culture exemplified by this post lmao. Don't be a chud in chats and you'll be ahead

 

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