Northwestern vs Georgetown
Very fortunate to have been admitted to both schools as a transfer applicant. I've seen a 'consensus' on this forum that Georgetown is the better school for finance placement, but does this still hold true? Georgetown has much more competition, and from what I've seen by doing research on the Northwestern IB Club, they have really strong placement even with less kids interested in finance.
Currently leaning towards Northwestern but wanted to see what you all think. Please feel free to let me know if I'm mistaken anywhere.
I'm in Northwestern's IB club - feel free to DM.
at Northwestern, how many people are actively recruiting/place?
Rough estimate - I’d guess 150-200 people actively try and recruit. As for placement, 90+ percent of the investment banking club places (around 70 people in the club), and those placements are public online. I know people not in the club that still place, but the rate is definitely a lot lower. One is going to Evercore M&A in NY.
Georgetown is better for finance placement. I have seen kids wait to start recruiting until sophomore january/february and land top offers. Preprofessional culture and extracurriculars also help you massively. They created a program to mirror other recruiting programs at schools recently called GCAB, but a lot of recruiting prep is done through finance clubs.
Lol this def isn’t true. Georgetown is probably one of the most overhyped schools for whatever reason, OP please choose Northwestern (I say this as someone who attended Brown and has ties to neither school).
I’ve found that Georgetown alumni are far worse than the Northwestern alums that I’ve worked with in any capacity. Additionally, this has led me to take calls with Northwestern students but not Georgetown students. At Northwestern, you don’t need to be in clubs to place well, and it is THE BEST pre-professional school in the country (after Penn). Northwestern is just simply a more prestigious, higher ranked, more well rounded school than Georgetown, and you can’t go wrong with it.
Stop hating, your probably just a northwestern kid salty about getting rejected from Georgetown
There is the Georgetown-->RBC--->CVP Pipeline for a reason. It shows you the only "good" type of talent comes out of Georgetown is shitty diversity candidates that work at RBC then beyond. Think about it 2 candidates from RBC from Georgetown were blasted and both were diverse. You never hear of Northwestern in the same light. So please take this into consideration and go to Northwestern as you will actually learn something and not be around diversity just breathing and taking your spot.
How does Georgetown’s police force have anything to do with their IB placements
NU is also good bc you will be top of pile for Chi IB behind uchicago.
I’d take NU, more prestigious and ranks higher. GT is good but highly inflated on this forum
I did not go to either school but I think NU while underrated on this forum (Georgetown has a lot of finance hardos supporting it on this forum), is a more prestigious institution overall and will be easier to place from. Have heard placement has improved a lot last few years. Also just seems less toxic tbh.
I know both schools well. Have recruited at both. Don't choose between these based on finance placement. It's way too close after making proper adjustments. It's probably even close in absolute terms. But if not, then definitely in adjusted terms.
By adjusted terms I mean, a higher % of Gtown kids want finance. It's a bit preppier, a bit more of the east coast mindset of finance/law/consulting or bust. So you're going to see a bit higher % of Gtown kids in IB probably, but it's because of their personal choice.
The two factors I'd consider are:
- your success in landing IB from either school will depend a lot on the grades you get, so I'd be visiting both campuses a couple times each to get a sense for where I feel comfortable at a gut level. Which place will really allow you to be your best. Everyone underestimates this because it's subjective and hard to quantify. But it's huge. You need to do well, and environments can vary. Respect the opinion of your gut.
- if you have an interest in working in Chicago or at least consider Chicago a viable option for launching your IB career, then Northwestern will have the added bonus of being one the two elite schools in that fairly major market
I am international student. Please guide me between unc and WashU for IB. Or should I look for transfer to target school
I mean both should set you up for placement well, with a slight edge to Northwestern so I mean from a pure IB placement standpoint I don't think you can go wrong, and choosing one over the other won't be the reason you don't place well. Honestly think it comes down to what you want. Do you want to be in DC or Chicago? Do you value a more traditional big 10 college environment or east coast LAC?
NU is probably the better school overall but Gtown still places extremely well and it is just a different vibe. DC > Evanston and good pipelines for law/politics/consulting. You will do awesome at both
NU definitely has way more pull for MBB/ T2 consulting, and not worse when it comes to law school placement (where your UGPA and LSAT are more important anyway.
I wouldn't really consider any of these schools to be 'prestigious'. In my opinion, anything outside of Wharton, and to a lesser extent, HYP, isn't really prestigious.
Second, although I would include the likes of fratty targets such as UVA/UMich/UNC.
Agreed. In my experience I’ve found frat stars (usually on the taller end) from those schools to be very high quality candidates.
definitely georgetown
For finance, unquestionably Georgetown. Same for law/govt
anything else, northwestern
Lol so untrue, NU has very similar placement (even better on the buyside with 7+ Blackstone, 2+ Ares, 2+ Bain Capital, 2+ KKR just these year from a single club) with much, much less competition
Hilarious seeing the MS when all of the placement can be verified by linkedin + NU club sites :)
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