The most OVERRATED school for IB

What % of students would say get BB/EB out of the students that are interested and apply? What % about of kids with average/slightly below average GPAs getting IB?

Did you go to all 3 of them?  If not, be more specific

I agree. Currently at HYP. Definitely looks good on the resume and all, but people also don’t realize that you’re pretty much on your own when it comes to recruiting. No support from the school, no finance classes (at least where I am), and our career center is a joke.

I wouldn’t want to go anywhere else, though— people I’ve met here have been amazing. I genuinely feel like I am a much better critical thinker as a result of where I go. But everything recruiting-wise is entirely self-driven.

poor troll attempt, the placements at that school speak for themselves

if uva is overrated so are mich, cal, and duke

Incoming Darden shade. McIntire certainly isn't overrated.

undergrad

It can’t be overrated if everyone already knows placement is weak

Last two analyst cycles I've seen, new hires/interns out of TCU >> SMU

I'd go as far to say that the veeeeeerrry small number of Baylor candidates are better than the SMU kids, although I admit the obvious survivorship bias makes this a very apples and oranges comparison.

SMU places decent in Houston

Didn’t go to SMU but work at a top shop in Houston. SMU places way better than TCU/A&M. SMU places at most of the top shops in Houston and has strong pipelines to Citi and Moelis NY. Also the quality of Alts kids is only matched by top UT and Rice kids. 

Agreed. Have a friend there now who landed a job but he told me its way too competitive for the max 2-3 slots per bank (and usually 1-2 spots). 

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Guessing its kids who couldn't go to legitimate targets and need to exaggerate for their egos. UVA is either spoiled legacy frat bros, nerdy TJHSST kids, or plain idiotic VCCS transfers.

I'm a student here, love it, but won't pretend that the % of kids we send into high finance is better than what you would find at a typical semitarget.

Strong Michigan and UVA reacts.

I go to UF and those who don’t do MSF still end up at solid MM shops (STRH/RJ/WF). Sure it’s no Goldman but it’s not bad for a nontarget.

UIUC Gies IB Academy

UIUC Gies IB Academy

this is 100% accurate and you are even probably understating the placement. people hate on UVA on wso because they're miserable at their stern/wharton while we have a blast on grounds

Compliance/HR at the BBS?

I graduated from the MS Commerce this past year. I won't compare my program's placement to BS Comm since BS Comm's is way better.

Out of 40 finance track students in my program, we have the following placement: McKinsey, Bain, Greenhill, CS LevFin, Harris Williams x 2, Stifel, MM PE, boutique IB doing healthcare in Charlotte (myself but I turned down the offer), RBC, boutique IB doing fintech (not FTP).

Those are only students whom I know well. There are a few other students I don't know well or barely talk to.

This is 11/40 already getting IB/top consulting offers, give or take I would say 15/40 got offers comparable to IB offers or actual IB offers. That's about 37.5%. I won't say this rate is low.

This is for UVa's MS commerce program. For BS commerce it is only better. I don't know why people throw MS at comments saying UVa is def a target.

Also the competition is there insane. Many berkeley students would be better off going to another school where they could hae a big fish advantage

Maybe for IB and CO but UCB is on par with Stanford in Tech. UCB/Stanford/MIT/CMU are the top 4 placements for FAANG and elite unicorns

I agree. Haas is extremely competitive, and the math majors and stem double majors out score the business students all the time for the best internships. You pretty much have to be a double threat to make it in the bay area if you want a good placement. sad.

LOL if you have half a pulse at cal you can land a banking gig. Some of the most entitled, lazy, and ungrateful kids coming out of that school. Had one a couple years back who had his offer rescinded for lying about interning at a "PE firm" - turned out to be a company he made up. Another one claimed he ran some consulting firm that did web development for "dozens" of F1000 companies. All turned out to be BS.

were you referring to EB/BB level?

Dartmouth is one of the top schools for buyside out of undergrad. Your comment is totally wrong

Are you saying Cornell because there's lots of smart qualified candidates and not everyone gets offers?

I figured Brown would be good place to go for IB because there's not much competition, you disagree?

hoes mad

Is UVA econ a target?

Lots end up in CLT which is understandable

UNC is a true semi target school, very possible to get BB NYC without having to be in any specific clubs etc.

Both pretty shit, in my experience BC is heavily overrated while I've never even seen a BU kid yet.

Not great but not no names. Didn’t go to either but have friends at both. If you’re well qualified from either and put in the work, youll be ok, but I don’t think either get much OCR from big names, if any at all.

I'll disagree with the other sentiments about both being bad. BC alum, and I can say that the resources are certainly there if you want to do it. Getting into IBST is certainly incredibly helpful, but even if not you can make way. THe alumni are absolutely great and most BC people end up being incredibly chill and will offer to take networking calls, mock interviews, outwardly tell you that they are moving through the pipeline. What's interesting, though, is with no frats on campus you have a much bigger advantage finding that via clubs (like club soccer for example). Know plenty of people that placed in BBs. EBs I think are a different story but it's definitely still do able. Even BU, I don't think it's that bad. Don't really know how flushed out the resources / pipeline is at BU but I've definitely stumbled upon folks who went into banking just casually on LinkedIn.

Also, BC gets plenty of OCR. If anything, it's much much harder to go to, say, MBB compared to BB IB.