Northwestern, GWU, London School of Economics, Carnegie Mellon, GeorgeTown

Guys,

How would you choose these? are theses all target schools? Please rank. number 1 being the best.

P.s.

GWU: George Washington University

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internationally I would have to say LSE by quite some way. I got into both Northwestern and LSE, and went to LSE, largely because it has a great rep across the world along with oxbridge from the UK. In the UK it is crazily recruited, take a look at this: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/graduateDestinations/DLHE/factsAndFigu… c. 1/4 of my graduating class went into some sort of professional field!

 
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For undergrad at GWU only ML, BS, LB, and GS have any sort of recruiting on campus. BS and ML have the only full scale recruiting for all divisions. I work for a differnt BB investment bank (and got several other job offers from other BB I-Banks). Decent school with decent recognition, but definetely not a target school. Professors and classes are definetely lacking compared to more well recognized schools. Ratul's ranking above is correct.

 

For undergrad trading in the US I think ratul's rankings are a bit off.

Every major bank, save Lehman, recruits at CMU in addition to DE Shaw, Citadel, and a few other funds. I work on a pretty respectable trading floor and I do not know very many people from Northwestern or Georgetown, and non from GWU. Our London branch naturally has a ton of people from LSE.

 

Ratul's rankings are correct. Georgetown and CMU share that second to last position. If you are considering i-banking jobs, Georgetown wins out. If you are considering S&T jobs, CMU wins out. If you can't get a job out of those first 4 schools, any of those 4 schools (except GWU), there's something wrong with you, not your school's recruiting.

 

LSE represent!! If you want to work in London or anywhere in Europe for that matter I would go to LSE hands down. If you want to work in New York however; I would think that a good US school would make more sense; this is mainly due to location. I would work in the Citi over the Street any day though, so go for LSE.

I want to work now! No, really. I want those 100+ hours/week.
 

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