Help me choose a LAC with a career in finance in mind
Hello! I am a high school junior looking at competetive LACs to apply to next year. I am interested in business and finance, and would like to go to a college that could give me the right opportunities to get internships and jobs at top firms (IB/MBB consulting). Some of the schools that I am interested in are: Middlebury, Hamilton, Williams, W&L, Colgate, Bowdoin, Amherst, Trinity, Conn College, etc. I know that Williams and Amherst place the best, but are much harder to get into. Through my family, I have quite a few connections spread out in BBs and MBB, but they are not super strong. Would these connections help me even if I went to some of the weaker schools on my list? Which of these colleges would you recommend the most? Thanks! Any help is greatly appreciated
P.S. I know it is early for me to be thinking about this, but finance is something that I am genuinly interested in, and I really like all of the colleges, regardless of their ties to Wall Street.
I have met tons of awesome guys from Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, Wesleyan, Bowdoin, and Pomona through prior internships and people in my network working FT.
Alumni bat hard and you are in a much smaller pond. Very well respected and they all have plenty of pipelines to the street that you can utilize if you are proactive from day one. Obviously pound-for-pound the traditional targets are gonna place better/receive more recruiting, but you will be unique in your own way- which is attractive to banks and the reason why they still recruit a good amountat LAC's.