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. 

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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

 

They're just not as keen on putting incoming in their linkedin titles as warwick people

 

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

 
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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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