Let’s talk Statistics:Harvard vs IB

From a statistical perspective, it is harder to land a IB FT/SA gig than land a spot at Harvard or ANY Ivy for this matter.

Harvard acceptance rate: 5% Goldman acceptance rate: 1.6% CS acceptance rate: 0.5% MS: 2% BofA: 1% JPM: 1.7%

(Rates differ due to size. CS seems a lot more selective because they are 1/3 the size of the rest of the banks, while GS seems really high since they hire A LOT, point still stands regardless)

Does this mean we are better than all Ivy League kids ?

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The difference is it costs money to apply to Harvard / other colleges and doesn’t cost money to apply to jobs. Therefore, the compassion isn’t apples to apples as people wouldn’t apply to ivy leagues if they feel they had no shot. I think it’s fairly even in terms of difficulty to go to any ivy and break into BB IB.

 

Lol Harvard as a fee waiver if you ask for it. So do the majority of t20s

 

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