Semi Target for Banking

Right now I'll be applying for colleges that might give me a solid education for finance/banking/pe, but I don't have the best grades/test scores and so I'm trying for schools right outside target range.

I wanted to get input on the following schools:

Rice, Univ of Rochester, Univ of Southern California (Marshall), Tufts, Vanderbilt.

I asked on a previous thread about LAC's and it was insisted that the list my guidance counselor gave me were all non targets except williams/amherst so the above schools are where I'm really looking at. Apparently bowdoin, wesleyan, brandeis, bucknell, colgate and wake aren't worth it.

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Gut instinct is that USC or Vanderbilt are best options. USC is a business school, so you have have semi-strong OCR, but I imagine that it mainly is focused on LA/SF. I go to Vanderbilt and confirm that BAML and Goldman Sachs both recruit on-campus for NYC IBD; Morgan Stanley does a resume drop, and some other BB's (Deutsche Bank, etc) recruit for non-NYC locations (e.g. Florida). Rochester/Tufts/Rochester seem like less ideal choices, but admittedly, I don't know as much about them.

 

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