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Ignore the title, as I've gone to PE recently. Feel like our reputation is pretty shitty compared to our outcomes. Our finance club's recent placements include PJT RSSG, EVR RX, HL LA RX, MOE, EVR, GS, JPM, MS, and any other firm you can name. Kids place lights out for consulting too but not super tapped in. Not many students at Hopkins recruit for finance, but the network helps each other out a ton, and people recognize the name so they take your calls at arguably a far greater rate than schools that people consider > JHU. Anyone that tries to recruit places into firms to similar success of a "target school." Never was able to get away with a first round w/out networking but once in the process people respected the name at an equal amount or more than my "target/semi-target" friends from HS. TL;DR: JHU is a slept on option for those interested in IB & Consulting, especially for HC. I see it being a much bigger name in twenty yrs w/ more and more people interested in finance attending as well. Even now, 99.99% of people seriously recruiting at JHU break into IB. For any prospective students I'd encourage you to apply. Obviously not delusional. I'd still recommend going to Harvard and such over JHU. More so speaking on other semi-target schools. I think we are a weird case where networking is nonexistent but the kids that do end up placing go lights out.
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You make very fair points that I can’t refute because they are a matter of opinion.
However, I feel like you overestimate the importance of your Alma Mater’s network. No doubt alumni have helped me out the most and I favor current students but I spent more than half of my time networking with randoms and got most of my interviews that way. I had practically a 100% hit rate with responses. My point was that many of my friends who went to the aforementioned schools stuck within their school’s network not because it was extensive but rather because those from other schools were not responsive. Maybe just a small sample size but then I wonder how many people did you network with from outside your school?
Honestly, you seem like a nice guy - my recommendation is to remove the bit about the other schools and I’m happy to adjust my comments after.
Network is extremely important in finance. The reaaon you don’t think so is because… JHU doesn’t have as strong of one. I got every internship and eventual offer at my BB IB group due to alums pushing for me on the other side, JUST because we went to the same school. It’s helpful for recruiting for both IB and PE (landed an offer in PE too, old account).
That’s ignoring the little bonding moment you have during deals when you find out someone else shares an alma mater. People view your in a more favorable light just because you went to the same school. Extremely illogical but it is what it is.
Even the high school nimrods on this forum wouldn’t take any of NYU, UVA, Cornell, and pretty much any other T20 over JHU for a finance career track. Maybe Caltech, but even doubt that.
It just doesn’t have the infrastructure, network, school focus, or location for finance. Don’t really understand the point of this post - will have the opposite effect of what you were trying to make
What do you mean by infrastructure? Also, since when did location matter? We’re closer to nyc than Cornell for example and 30 min from Philly. See previous comment abt network. I seriously doubt you’d rather go to WashU, CMU, or even Brown over JHU for example. NO HATE BTW. Have buddies who went to all three from my feeder hs and can tell you we placed far better. In addition, many schools on this topic place fantastically in terms of volume but not as great in terms of BB/ Independent Advisory. Hardly a single hopkins kid ends up in even MM.
Infrastructure was probably not the best term - that’s my bad. Maybe “culture” would be better. Take two schools, all else equal, but School X has a culture of kids studying, placing into finance, and running finance clubs, etc - School X would fare better than the other school.
And I don’t even mean to sound like an asshole, you’re a nice guy who clearly went to JHU - location can help a LOT. Think about T20 schools in locations like Uchicago, Berkeley, NYU. All of them are located at massive finance hubs where students can take classes by morning and run off-cycle IB/PE internships in afternoons/evenings. Resulting in better resumes and hence better placement.
I’m sure JHU has incredible placement by % and not volume - banks are def open to JHU, just not as many come from there. Hope that clarifies anything I meant.
how many kids are actively recruiting for finance at JHU?
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