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Big cope, if you’re smart you’ll make it. U don’t need a Ivy school to be successful in life
If this were true the distribution of schools at top firms would not look anywhere close to how it looks currently.
Cope intern
So you don’t go to those schools but know that the quality of student and education will be unmatched? Weird.
You need to realize that the opportunities out of any ivy (or top school like MIT, Stanford, etc) are unbelievable and you can land basically anywhere.
Will it take a bit more work? Yes, for some opportunities it will (some schools have great connections with places, and the top schools get some of the more extremely difficult jobs on campus)
Will it make a difference if you are good? No
Will that first job (and the fact you went to HYP) matter after a few years? Not really
To succeed in this industry you need to 1) be really capable/smart/etc (depending on which part of the industry) 2) be a very hard worker 3) learn how to take advantage of opportunities (and more importantly create the opportunities) and 4) get lucky
As someone who has been in this industry for 15+ years and seen top students flame out and others succeed, you are making excuses for yourself. You are setup to succeed, if at this point you don’t, that’s on you.
I would disagree. I applied to one of HYPSM EA and didn't make it. Fortunately I eventually made it to an Ivy+ school but the chances were really slim. Had it went the other way around, I would've been stuck with a good-but-not-top school and high finance would've been out of the question. Definitely take advantage of ED if you find a school you really like.
This almost feels like a troll post. I went to one of the HYP schools and I’ve never felt that there was that much of a difference between the placement of my peers vs that of my high school buddies who went to Brown or Cornell (I know a few who are quants and make twice as much as me too).
You have to understand that there are hardly any buy side and quant positions out of undergrad. Yes HYP would have moved the needle a bit but chances are you’d lose the position to someone else at the school who was better connected or simply smarter and harder working. In this hypothetical world, you’d be making a post about how HYP is overrated and wishing you went to Dartmouth for a better experience and the same placements.
- Someone who graduated HYP this past summer who struck out at the same jobs.
Everyone hating but Im inclined to agree… Princeton in a league of its own.
you are all such prestige sucking dumbasses, any ivy league school consistently sends kids to buyside. this is your way of coping that you aren't top of your class when it came to recruiting, otherwise, you would've gotten that buyside opportunity (coming from a non HYP ivy student who landed a MF role). think about it seriously, HYP+Wharton has so many kids vying for buyside + quant that you need to be so above the rest to even stand out with a quant or MF from there, it's the same at every school. simply put, any ivy you go to: be the fucking best and let your work ethic show and you'll land a decent shot at a MF role. pure recruiting numbers make it look like Harvard + Wharton just feeds MF undergrads, but guess what, that's like 5 kids out of 200 finance eager kids in that school vying for those roles, the competition is the same everywhere, stop coping.
Cope, if you can’t make it from an Ivy you wouldn’t have made it from anywhere else…
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