Santa Clara Investment Banking Club

Does anybody know anything about the Santa Clara Investment banking club, and how students place on the West Coast? Is it like Kelley's workshop, where even though it's a non/semi target, students in this club actually place really well, on the West Coast?


 
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I was incredibly impressed with the SCU IB Club during my time in school. Though it was small, almost everyone who took it seriously placed at a BB / EB tech shop, myself included. Even had a kid go to PJT NY for FT. While there is no OCR, the club leadership are networking experts (they were in my day and I'm sure the tactics have been passed down). Definitely seems to be an up and coming IB university with a slowly expanding alumni network as well.

 

Even if the school is a non target, do the students in the IB club place decently on specifically the west coast?

 

current santa clara investment banking club leader, this is the perfect example. most kids who want to go into IB from SCU make it in though it does take a lot more work than a kid from berk. definitely growing and becoming a more recognizable name, though wouldn't say it's anywhere near a target

 

When you say they were networking experts, do you mean they like setup networking events with the banks to help give you exposure? Thanks for the info btw, its very helpful

 

They had networking events and also taught individuals techniques to set up lots of phone calls with bankers, even beyond the SCU network. They also showed me how to turn those into first round interviews. I did about 40-50 informational calls, had interviews with every firm that recruited and took the first offer that came my way. It seemed like I was much more prepared than some of the Berkeley / Claremont kids I met at my super days as well, but perhaps put more time into it.

 

I got into Kelley and SCU, which school would be better for me? SCU would be 72k and Kelley would be 50k a yr. I'm a California resident so I want to stay in-state.

 

I wouldn't spend a second thinking about this decision personally. That price tag is way too high for either of those, especially with the online format. Have you applied for financial aid? SCU students on average pay around $30K per year after scholarship / aid.

 

Whats up with this random SCU hype/plug.

Good for the students creating something like Kelley’s workshop but safe to assume its nowhere near Kelley yet. I am at a NYC EB and while I have seen Kelley kids in the street I have not heard of SCU students in IB till I saw this thread.

Maybe its stronger in the west coast but for NYC it’s a non-target and would take many many years for it to reach any level of recognition on the street. If you want to do IB in nyc you would be better picking places such as Fordham,Baruch, etc.

Also, just because 5-10 kids can get banking jobs annually it doesn’t make it a school a semi-target/up and coming. It takes years of alumni (or perhaps a new partner/head MD) for a firm to actually consider xyz a target list school. Think about analyst attrition odds are your alumni are probably in a different job within 2-3 years even if its in high finance

This isn’t to bash SCU, but rather to give unsolicited insight  for prospects looking at colleges.

 

I don't know how you inferred from this people hyping SCU as an IB school. It looks like the current IB club leader and alumni are giving very insightful and down to earth feedback in response to an inquiry with respect to the IB club. Also, doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to realize NY private schools place better in NY than west coast private schools in NY. It's pretty clear that only a few kids get into IB from SCU each year, and the rest of the thread is helpful for incoming freshman to see. No one is plugging anything.

 

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