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Stern is very competitive, basically everyone of the ~700 or so people per class wants to do IB. It is great for networking and OCR but really being an average student at stern is not great because most firms have a set number of spots for stern, then a % of those go to diversity students, and by the end it comes down to a few hundreds of kids competing for not that many spots. Dartmouth and UChicago are far above stern, even if they send a lower total number, have far few kids who want to do banking. Northwestern is similar because there are very few who want to do banking each year, ~50, so the total placement isn't the highest, but in terms of how many actually want banking I would say it is on par or above stern. McCombs and Ross are similar to stern in terms of being very competitive with a lot of kids gunning for IB, but McCombs is likely at the bottom of the three, and IU is nowhere close.

 
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Stern student here, out of the student body, I'd say only a 200 are actually competitive for IB positions (Stern curve makes it hard for everyone to have 3.7+). Non diverse this year was def really hard, but I'm sure if you join the right clubs and network hard you'll have no problem, good luck!

 

UT Austin Business Honors has only about 100 kids. Would this smaller class size make it more attractive than Stern? Or does Stern still edge it out?

 

I'd probably select UT because it seems like it would be easier to stand out.

 

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