Hot take - If your school is frequently mentioned, respected by or tunnel visioned by minorities, immigrants or third world people, its not prestigious
We all know the immigrants, minorities and the poor people in India, Pakistan, China, Africa and non-G7 countries dickride Stanford, MIT and Harvard because of their delusions that their kids can STEM it out for 4 years and land a job in IBD or FAANG SWE and make their entire family filthy rich. This is disgusting and with the rise of WSO and other degenerate forums on the internet, the knowledge of "target schools" that was reserved for WASPs in the days of old are now laid bare for all high schoolers and MBA hopefuls. Luckily, some data out there are statistically inaccurate (causation =/= correlation, geographical location, WASP hotspots, carried by alumni network instead of actual prestige/renown, having general prestige but regarded badly in the financial industry), which helps my nephew because his dumbass peers are applying to the wrong schools based on a "linkedin target school data graph" by the peakframeworks kid on YouTube.
Schools good for high finance aspirants relative to general ranking and prestige:
Yale
Dartmouth
Top ~10 LACs
Wharton (upenn)
Mendoza (notre dame)
Ross (umich)
Dyson (cornell)
Oxford
Cambridge
LSE
Warwick
Manchester
St Andrews
Desautels (mcgill)
Schools bad relative to general ranking and prestige:
Stanford
Sloan (mit)
Princeton
Harvard
Haas (berkeley)
Stern (nyu)
Ivey (uwo)
Bocconi (whatever the school is, dont even know if bocconi is the school or b school name)
Imperial
UCL
list not exhaustive, based off what my hungover self could list off the top of my head
source: jaded banker with a nephew going through the process
undergrads looking to transfer and snot nosed high schoolers, you can thank me by not applying to wharton or mendoza where my nephew is applying, thanks
Ah yes UCL, the 2nd/3rd most represented uni in uk banking is bad, alongside imperial which is the STEM-equivalent of LSE but Manchester, a school than sends less than 2 people into FO IB each year is good.
make it make sense pls.
I said relative to ranking, and Imperial doesnt have the sheer number of autistic kids who want to go into ibd/er/am/s&t like lse or warwick
Relative to ranking...? How is UCL, the 10th ranked (or 4th depending on what metric you use) university in the UK outplacing literally every school above it other than Cambridge and LSE? I don't see how you've come to this conclusion at all. No bank is going to view UCL differently to Warwick, and there won't be a big difference between these two and Oxbridge. If you mentioned buy-side recruiting out of ug then fair but BBs don't rly give a shit if u do warwick MORSE or Cambridge Land economy tbh.
Imperial kids are considerably more autistic than any other school cohort. Its rep is that it's a stem school mainly made up of male incels? That being said it's a great school and per capita, if kids want to go into IB, they won't be disadvantaged by their school brand at all. It's an advantage. "relative to ranking" - is this an excuse for putting a t50 uni in the good category when its literally sent 11 grads into BB/EBs in the past 5 years? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1n1vLYhVzGB_g7_eJKCebn21C8dy… kids to go to st andrews and manchester over imperial/ucl is seriously retarded.
This guy is a troll, look at his post-history lol. Don't even bother engaging at the point or just laugh with him.
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