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Yes, if you are diverse at Williams/Amherst type schools.
good to know, does the school you come from matter for breaking into PE if you've done your 2 year stint at a well known IB firm?
Yes. If you went a NESCAC, it'll be in your favor: NESCAC people from worse banks tend to do pretty well suggesting that it's an overall positive for PE recruiting or at least not a detriment. NESCAC's have a lot of cred within the PE crowd usually.
a lot of what ive seen from nescac are high level partners, but not many entry level PE. idk if its possivle to break into pe right out of undergrad from nescac
Dude read my response: I said yes to the question of if school matters for PE recruiting out of banking and said that NESCAC's help with that. Where did you get anything about breaking into PE right out of undergrad? Maybe going to a 'CAC will help your reading skills. On a less ribbing note, tons of PE associates from the 'CACs everywhere from MF's to MM's to LMM's. I think NESCAC naturally leads to PE entry out of associate because frankly they simply do not prepare you technically compared to the kids who study finance. On the desk, the LAC kids typically have a steeper learning curve, but as mentioned this shouldn't hurt exits and LAC kids often exit better than average for a group even if most LAC kids go off-cycle for PE (honestly now even less of a problem since only like 10 firms go on-cycle and they don't even hire most of their class from on-cycle).
Apollo effectively doesn't hire undergrads into its PE roles.
It hired 2 Indiana kids and 2 Harvard kids for PE out of undergrad
No idea why I’m getting MS when a contact I have at Apollo told me and it can be verified on Linkedin.
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