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Swarthmore is a great school, from what I hear, it's a weaker target for banking/consulting jobs out of undergrad, mainly just because the ethos of the school isn't quite as business-y. It's a more academic school, so fewer people end up on wall street and thus a weaker recruiting pipeline. If you were really trying to optimize for postgrad jobs in business and want to do a LAC, Amherst/Williams are the top and are roughly in the same category as a Swarthmore. Otherwise, Dartmouth and Cornell are both great schools. 

At the end of the day, I'm usually an advocate for generally going to school where you feel the fit is best. Going to Cornell and hating it vs Swarthmore and loving it isn't worth the slight advantage to getting into investment banking. You're spending too much time and money on school to have it purely be a means to an end. Plenty of folks have gone to Swarthmore and ended up with great careers, you might just have to try a bit harder. 

 

Def Dartmouth or maybe Cornell, pretty big gap between those and swarthmore for job prospects. “Fit” is very overrated imo, first of all you can barely tell how a campus is like from a few hour visits or a few random comments, and second these schools have literally thousands of undergrads, you’ll be able to find your niche/group/friends almost anywhere. Like on paper I don’t “fit” my current school at all it’s like the opposite of who I am, but it’s still been a great time and I have 0 complaints

 

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