Easiest schools to recruit to ib from?
We all know stern sends 200 kids but it’s always hardo town and kids squeeze into Blair. Realistically what are the schools where if you put any solid effort, you’ve pretty much got it?(DO NOT MENTION IVYS+MIT AND STANFORD) everyone knows that. Could be regional ib like Houston or Atl as well.
UVA is a good one I’ve heard
Second this ^ many strong undergrad finance clubs that place well into sell-side, as well as PE. Has significant alumni base at Jefferies, Guggenheim, and HW—with huge alum networks and club pipelines across the board at big BBs and EBs.
HLRX is very UVA heavy
If you go to UVA Undergrad BSchool (McIntire) and end up doing sell-side IB, you've fucked up. Top third of students go straight to buy-side roles or MBB (as they fancy), middle third ends up in IB / non-MBB Consulting, bottom third ends up at Big 4 or some shit.
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Here before everyone comments their school
Emory due to guaranteed ATL ib offer and good shot at NYC İB.
yeah tbh
Least obvious Emory kid, not that wrong tho.
Non targets with dedicated WSP programs.
I agree bc if you go to a target school, you’re gonna compete with target kids who have connections and are smart. Versus competing with non-targets which is much easier. Just land a good club, network, and high chance you’ll succeed.
Dartmouth
Any of the Ivies TBH. Falling numbers across the board into IB is more so due to self-selection, as kids opt to go to the buy-side, MBB, tech, etc out of undergrad instead.
IU Kelley
least obvious kelley kid after squeezing into ibw.
Competition for IBW is insane now. Wouldn’t recommend
Getting any Houston offer is very easy from UT or Rice. I’ve literally gone to one info session for a bank and had a first round a few days later without networking beyond 20 minutes after the info session, and ultimately got the offer.
Tbh SMU as well.
Texas A&M too with the Horizons program / club does very well in Houston
Duke
Duke is big at BMO
USC
IMO the Chicago schools are very underrated. Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame. All 3 have very strong NYC placement.
Notre Dame placement sucks ass, you're an absolute joke for this comment. Their alumni are also extremely non-receptive to networking with kids who are still in the midwest, once they do break into NYC (if they can finally get there). Make it out of the midwest then pull the ladder up on all of the poor schmucks still stuck in South Bend, Indiana with their thumbs up their assholes type of mentality. Meanwhile dudes still at Notre Dame can't get a fuckin' Big 4 offer in NYC unless they're black lesbians these days.
I went to ND and I’m just… confused. Not trying to be defensive, but I just don’t know where you came up with any of this because it just doesn’t make any sense. Most stereotypes are grounded in some shred of truth but this is just downright confusing to me because I’ve never heard it before.
Current ND student and this is not true at all. I am going to NYC and everyone I talked too could not possibly have been more helpful in my process.
BYU
Cornell grad, lowkey BYU is paradise.
If u put solid effort u got it from any reputable “target” schools. But no school can guarantee you an offer if you are a goober. Also looking for a easy way in is not the attitude to have buddy
Cornell grad, just asked bucko.
UT Austin
Massive school, only places from McCombs because of high concentration of hardos. If you have any Ivy+ school, Georgetown, Michigan, etc. go there instead.
Michigan is not an Ivy+ school lmao
Nescac (mostly tufts/amherst/williams) athletes, tho a lot of those guys are nepo kids so might be a case of correlation =/= causation. Northwestern and UChicago are powerhouses in both Chi and NYC. Gtown. Obv certain schools will place better on their home turf as well.
Tbh would put Midd over tufts any day.
Interesting - I’d go Tufts over Middlebury for sure
NYU
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If you’re looking into Houston, TAMU places extremely well. The programs and clubs will pretty much set you up for success
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So true abt the nimrods lol
I go to Emory and I would say interview+offer hit rate is fairly high. I’m not sure how it compares but it’s definitely pretty up there
Congrats on internship, and how high are we talking here. Out of 10 non diversity that go for ib how many of them would you say get it, same question for diversity as well? And is Atl ib really free from Emory?
UNC - solid school if you want MM firms in CLT or NYC. BB NYC is doable but takes some more sustained effort.
Yeah CLT is run by unc
TLDR: If you're not going to an Ivy, go to the best public university in your state and get accepted into their IB/PE feeder club. Recruit for IB in your state's / region's largest city.
SMU - Alternative Asset Management Program
https://www.smu.edu/cox/centers-institutes/alternative-asset-management…
Washington and Lee
The SMU mafia is insane (AAMP). Alumni network that is crazy very WASP. Plus, it is the benefit of being in Dallas, which is a rapidly growing IB market. If you are in Texas deciding between UT I would say UT bussiness honors trumps SMU but SMU AAMP trumps business honors. Normal SMU beats normal mckombs. If you have friends in AAMP already go there. Lights out recruitment tbh.
Would be cautious about IB market. Mostly wealth management at BB, and IB is almost all oil and gas in Houston. Growing yes, but still very early stages.
Not sure if being an IB analyst in dallas even counts
Gonna seem dumb but Stevens Tech. Those that go there and want IB, S&T etc usually get in at MM and lower level BB/EBs. A couple I've seen from searching is seen Jeff, BMO, Evercore, UBS, Goldman, Piper Sandler, Truist, Wells Fargo, and Williams Blair. There are others too and for such a business school in population I'd say thats solid. Also around Top 50 ranked in business schools.
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