Addressing the "worker shortage" in IBD from a jaded banker

There's some unsavoury characters here claiming "anyone with a pulse" can break into IBD now. Althought IBD's prestige has fallen by a HUGE margin since the 80s and again by a STAGGERING margin in the late 2000s, this does NOT mean your Ohio State, 2.9 GPA, African American Second Generation Immigrant ass can break in.

It simply means that the roles in IBD that were traditionally reserved only for Wharton, Yale, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Dartmouth, Georgetown, LSE, Imperial, Warwick and Notre Dame kids are now also considering kids from tier 2 backgrounds, such as Princeton, Chicago, Stanford and even MIT. 
 

Again, this does NOT mean you can break into Private Equity (especially megafund) without a tier 1 pedigree (Oxbridge/WHY) or a tier 1 MBA (LBS/INSEAD/HBS/W).

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