How much does college affect eventual opportunities in IB?

I am currently in HS. I play lax and my recruiting window is soon. I am wondering while I consider schools if it is worthwhile enough to factor in if they are target/semi-target/non-target. How difficult would it be to get a job in NYC/Boston/South(Atlanta, Charlotte, etc) from different types of school in terms of prestige, size, or location(U of Richmond, Brown, Colgate, Michigan). I know that each different school and each different city/bank is very different but as a whole how important is your college?

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I’m assuming you mean the prestige/ocr opportunities of your college? In that case, it depends.

Let’s say you want to do MF PE. If you go to URichmond and work your ass off to work at Goldman for 2 years, the PE firm wont care about what college you went to because you have Goldman on your resume.

But if you didn’t get into Goldman, the PE firm is gonna care that you have a bad college and a bad IB role.

Bottom line is, shoot for the stars and if it doesn’t work out, work your ass off for that first job.

 

Adding on, just as a general rule, your college matters a lot for your first job, and your first job matters a lot more than college for the next.

 

Thank you, very helpful. Another question, if I went to say a smaller, non-target school but still a good school in its own right like Colgate or Richmond how difficult is it to get that offer at Goldman or other BB? Also, if I don't get to a top-tier bank and instead a lesser or smaller one are exit opportunities poor?

 

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