IU to Stanford?
Hi all, I am a student at Kelley business school at Indiana University. I am looking to pursue a career in investment banking and I know that Kelley is not a target school for most banks. However, I heard that a lot of Kelley grads get recruited by William and Blair which is in Chicago. How realistic would working for William and Blair for a couple years and then going to get my MBA at a bigger school such as Stanford, Harvard, or Columbia be? Assuming that I do well at Kelley right now.
IU is fine. I know for a fact many MM IBs recruit out of there. No need to transfer to pursue IB.
IU also places well into NY BBs.
If you get into the IB workshop, you'll get the looks from NY BB/EBs. If not, it's my understanding that placement is highly unlikely (of course anything is possible with networking, just talking probability here).
Indiana University to B.B. or EB is simply impossible. Get to Stanford as fast as you can. Do whatever it takes
Lol its easier to get to BB/Eb than to transfer to stanford
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Deserve to be gunned down in the streets for thinking IU is not the best way to get to BB IB? Sounds a bit excessive
First off read the post, they're asking about the feasibility of getting a Stanford MBA. Second ^
You're an idiot; go take a look at the IU IB Workshop website and click on any of the 2018 members profile. A very good amount have FT positions in IB. https://kelley.iu.edu/IBN/Members/memberViewForm_1.cfm?gradYear=2018&af…
Yeah like HL RX Chicago is the best role I saw after creeping some of their resumes. Agree with some others that transferring to Stanford is going to be the best way into a BB/EB IB role without lateralling a year after FT
You probably don't know the difference between going to just Indiana and going to Kelley.
There's no difference, Kelley is a joke lol, only the banking, IM and consulting workshops are good
impossible? I have a friend, who isn't even that smart, at IU place at an EB
2 Evercore FT placements last year, 7 Moelis NYC intern placements this year, with other kids in intern and FT roles at PWP, Lazard, Rothschild, Greenhill as well as all the BBs...
The IBW at IU places ~70 people a year at reputable MM/BB/EB banks every year. Get in the IBW and you have as good a shot as any other school for an IB gig
Tons of butthurt in this thread. Much of it from people who aren’t even reading the two or three sentences from the post they are replying to. Weird.
It's William Blair, not William and Blair. :-/
I'm glad someone said it. It needed to be said.
So if I understand your proposed path it's: state school, IB, prestegious B school... right? Yeah, that's completely possible. Happens all the time. But what do you want to do after B school? I feel like that's the missing part. There are a number of MD's at top IB's that went to IU and never went to grad school. Similarly, if you go to William Blair you may like the culture and not want to leave. BB IBs chew up top grads every year that go on to start their own breweries, strawberry farms, etc. or other EBITDA lacking endeavors. William Blair might actually offer you a career rather than a two year contract with the hope of being picked of by a top PE.
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