Wharton is King
If one graduates from what can only be described as the best school in the world - that is, of course, the Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania, it is possible to get any job at any investment bank or get a Finance PhD or Masters from any school. Those who graduate from mediocre schools like Harvard and Stanford also have a decent shot at these opportunities. Those who graduate from piles of s**t schools, such as NYU or UC Berkeley or University Michigan, you have no chance.
I say this as someone who personally graduated from the best school in the world - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and who now works in Private Equity, where I earn a few million dollars annually and fly exclusively in First Class almost exclusively between New York, London, and Hong Kong, where my tickets often cost in excess of $30,000.
I would recommend you all to apply to the Wharton School, as indeed it would guarantee you any job or PhD placement you so wished for, but it would be a waste of time seeing as you wouldn't get in anyway. Being the best school in the world, naturally, the Wharton School is very exclusive and closed off, especially from the common populace, such as yourself.
Wharton? Ohhh its that place next to Temple right? I knew a guy who went there, he really loved the Nittany Lion Fund!
I do believe that is the case. My hedge fund (think Tiger/Lone Pine/Viking/Axe Capital) only hires out of HBS.
He's talking about undergrad buddy… not business school (MBA)…. Great reading comprehension skills for a “PM at Viking” which there is no way you are. Also, there are many wharton MBAs at those companies u listed, just perusing LinkedIn
You are, by far, the most superior retard I have ever encountered in my life. Much like those spastic, uncontacted tribes found in the Amazon which worship cans of spam which have fallen from the sky, you have missed the point.
hint: “axe capital”
You claim to be a PM at "Axe Capital" yet you are on WSO and you didn't know he was talking about undergrad and not MBA... got it
Axe Capital is a fucking made up hedge fund from a TV show you fucking imbecile. You are definitely not going to break into the industry, you can't even use Google or realise that a) the original post is a troll and not to be taken seriously and b) my comment was a joke going along with it.
Get a fucking grip you moron.
Lmao LSE is literally worse than UCLA/USC semi target schools. You guys have like >50% offer rate and take AAB for some majors. I heard it got so shitty that banks did away with OCR and have online tests for anyone applying, regardless of school. Enjoy your shitty London salary and worthless degree in "Economic Archaeology" or whatever desperate nonsense LSE throws together these days while deluding yourself into thinking you attended a top school