Brown University is by far the most underrated Target/Semi-Target
Imagine getting trolled by a Cornell student. Couldn't be all of you guys, right......right?????????
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As someone who received a GS HV, I have to agree with this.
True, Brown places lights out at top BB and CVP/PWP
The more I think about it though, what schools even have a good culture? Don't say state schools because sports/frats culture gets old after a year. Top schools have too much wealth/privilege and lean too far left. Medium schools seem okay though
Notre Dame
I'd have to disagree with not being a target -- we place kids at top BBs (Gs/JPM/BofA/etc.) and EBs (well, mainly just EVR and Moelis but still better than no EBs) pretty consistently.
Oh shit he brought out the linkedin search
As a brown graduate, this is an awful take.
I have friends who are placing at- GS, Barclays (multiple), Citi, CS, JPM, PWP, Centerview, and Moelis. Tons of MM (Piper, Blair, etc) represented as well. Specifically at EBs (Centerview and PWP) brown is a top target and these firms hire something like 3-5 each per year, which is insane placement given the amount of kids trying to recruit from Brown. This isn't like 'oh there was one kid in my grade who I heard got GS'- these are people I'm friends with who landed top IB jobs. These kids aren't finance gods either- they're just generally smart people who did well in school and got tons of opportunities. Not to mention placement at other great finance gigs like HF (P72 and Citadel recruit heavily), PE (know a few people going direct to MM shops), GE (Insight, Spectrum recruit heavily), quant (super target for jane street, DE Shaw, lots of other prop trading firms). Also ridiculously good consulting placement- know at least 20 kids headed to MBB, everyone I know who did consulting recruited landed at one of those firms.
If you can't get a good finance job out of Brown, I'm blaming you. I didn't really know if I wanted finance or consulting so I recruited for both and didn't take IB recruiting that seriously, but there was enough of a recruiting pipeline that I landed interviews at multiple BBs and an EB through OCR and got a job at a BB.
Totally agree that people give Brown an easier rep than it probably should have- I was a STEM major also and definitely didn't think it was easy- but still definitely easier to get an A at Brown than my friends at other ivies. If you don't have a 3.7+ GPA, you're a dumbass (and didn't learn how to use pass fail to help). No one in IB recruiting cares if you get cum laude or phi betta kappa or whatever, just that you have a decent GPA, and getting a decent GPA from Brown is insanely easy.
As for the kids, ya a good portion of the student body is retarded, I don't disagree. Plenty of normal people also though. Would love to see one school in new england without an insane student body though- all my friends at other ivies generally had the same experience that tons of kids are insane.
So you changed your mind and edited your post?