Warwick Univeristy: Biggest current super target in London?
A bit random post, but having done a few spring weeks in London I have always been surprised by how many students come from Warwick compared to other universities.
For BB summer class last year Warwick had the same headcount if not more than LSE and for SA 2021 more people doing MBB from Warwick than Oxford.
Also, another interesting thing I have seen is the lack of people from Imperial? I am aware that most people from Imperial doesn't want to go to banking but still shocking that for some summer classes they have 0 people representing the uni.
Lastly, hope Brexit reduces intake from European MSc.
Don't forget, Warwick has nearly three times more students than LSE.
Not sure about your MBB statement, for McKinsey my assessments were mostly comprised of Oxford PPE students.
That's a good point but half the courses at Warwick are theatre, sociology, film studies etc and other places like UCL have double total number of uni students than Warwick
Same could be said for LSE tbh - half of LSE students are left leaning SJW's
What? There are plenty of people at my firm from all warwick, lse, ucl, oxbridge, imperial etc.
By far oxbridge are the super targets. They study stuff like classics and still get into finance
A quick look over LinkedIn will tell you that Oxbridge is not overrepresented in the finance industry. Obviously they do not apply as much as LSE students
They're just not as keen on putting incoming in their linkedin titles as warwick people
In Sydney too this happens with students from University of Sydney. Many big banks are actually targeting non-finance graduates because the sector was so f****d up (see Royal Commission into Banking).
This Analyst 1 - IB OP is definitely just a prospect who's only done 2-3 springs, doesn't even bother reference his own SA
If he's an actual analyst he wouldn't care so much about his university being perceived as a super-target (who even says that? supertarget?)
You don't need to be an analyst in a BB, doing a gap year between BSc and MSc and started A1
Going to a target university is honestly just a pre-req at this point. Yes going to oxbridge looks more impressive than going to UCL, but UCL is still a target and will be looked at so if UCL candidate is more impressive than Oxbridge on all other aspects, UCL candidate gets the spot. Could argue the same is true of semi-target/non-target vs target but i think there's just more evidence for the intra-target comparisons. Imperial is still targeted as much as Warwick but the lack of representation is due to the culture over there, a lot less friendship groups talking about and vying for summers/springs compared to UCL so naturally there's less access for them to build up stronger profiles compared to say UCL or LSE where they're constantly brought up and have very dominant finance socs. That being said I think I read somewhere that imperial, although placing much less than UCL and LSE, tends to have a higher success rate than both schools - complete hearsay though.
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