Top LAC recruitment
How are top LACs like Bowdoin and Midd for ibanking recruitment? Obviously small alumni networks, but not sure how the scene is at those schools. Any help? Thanks
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To give you the general answer, there is little to no formalized recruiting at the Top LACs. With that being said, the Alumni network is pretty tight at all of the schools so if you want to get into banking, it usually isn't too hard if you had decent grade and the ability to network and make connections. Kids from Williams and Amherst have it the easiest as those schools have the strongest brand name and below them, I would generalize and say most of the recruiting looks the same at the other liberals arts schools ranked 3-20 some are slightly stronger while others are weaker depending on the school. Vassar isn't sending tons of kids into banking because it tends to be a much more artsy school whereas a Middlebury, Colgate, Hamilton, Colby, etc will probably slightly stronger due to the types of kids that go to those schools. Outside the top 20 its a little bit of a crapshoot, some schools will place ok, but typically not on the level that the top 20-25 place.
As a grad from a top LAC I can say that while there was little formalized recruiting, we had alumni from banks come to campus to do info sessions and also had plenty of opportunity to go down to NYC for sponsored networking days. Alumni were always happy to help out and I had a very high response rate of pretty powerful alums(some VPs and MDs at BB) who would make time to chat with me.
Would Williams and Bowdoin be pretty much on par in terms of placement? Not necessarily NYC placement (possibly Boston/Chicago/SF), but any ideas?
Williams would be stronger than Bowdoin for sure. Better ranking overall and better represented on the street. Bowdoin is also a great school, but in my opinion Bowdoin tends to be a little more academic with fewer ties to wall street. Not saying you couldn't make it, Bowdoin would still give you a great shot, but if you had the choice between the two I would go with Williams. Banking aside, I also really liked Williams and thought the school had a great feel as opposed to Bowdoin which I wasn't as high on.
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