My Choice of Schools
Hey, So I have it narrowed down to two schools (undergrad):
1)Baruch College
2)St. John's University (tobin school of biz)
I know it is not exactly princton or yale, but I'm happy. Please give me your ideas...thanks
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it's in the city so more chances to get part time internship during school year. after 1st year, transfer out.
Ive never heard of those, but I would go to a state school since those are not "HYP". Between those 2, go to the one closest to a city so you can work. I did that, and even though i go to a non-target, it helped having all those internships and being able to randomlly email someone my resume and come in for an interview was nice.
how have you never heard of St. Johns? I understand if youve never heard of Baruch, but never St. Johns?????
Ive heard of their basketball team. I have no idea where they are located or anything about them other than sometimes their bball team is decent.
Wasn't St. Johns a BSD for basketball in the 80's?
I think you have a better shot with Baruch. While I don't know how they place into BBs, I've met a couple kids from Baruch during interviews, and at the very least it's in the city, and as the first poster mentioned, you can get some experience and exposure before you try to transfer to somewhere better.
I would go with st. john's. Its also pretty much a city school form what I know, just a subway ride away. Im sure baruch is a good school, but bottom line- it is a city school. St. johns is close to the city, has a pretty good rep, and there basketball team plays at MSG... who knows if there is some fans in the banking world who go to the games. If you are in it for the short term and are looking to transfer, well baruch is prob a hell of a lot cheaper, but my bet is on st johns for the long haul. good luck.
Go to Baruch. They're in the city and have a much better finance program than St Johns. You will also save a ton of money since Baruch is only 4k a year (although i'm sure St.Johns gave you an amazing package, they give everyone an amazing package). However, as others have indicated, it's very easy to get a part time internship at Baruch. I'm currently a Baruch student and I have a part time internship in finance. Almost all the banks recruit at Baruch for back office/operations positions. You will have to do your own networking at both schools. However, Baruch has some very good up and coming programs to place students into front office positions. They have a Wall Street Careers program which is a merit based competitive entrance program in which a resume book of intern candidates is sent out to points of contact at the major banks. This past year there were 20 people in the program, of which 17 have front office internships. The program is doubling in size next year. Baruch also has the largest number of students in Inroads and a very large number of candidates in SEO. Baruch also has an investment banking club geared towards training and landing a front office position. This past year they sponsored the Wall-St Training company to come and train Baruch students excel modeling. The program (after subsidies from the club and school) cost students $40 each for the entire program with the head of the program as the proctor. If you choose to obtain this training directly from Wall-St Training, it costs $3000. Baruch is just more geared towards wall street. It has a historically strong business and finance program, unlike St. Johns.
Choose Baruch. No question at all. Get good grades, go into the honors program. You will place well.
Baruch. average high school GPA 3.0, SAT is 1108.
I've seen more applicants for analyst gigs for this school than the latter...
Go to Baruch.
Any school Ron Artest used to go to cannot be a good feeder. (he went to St.John)
Baruch and St Johns both have stupid fucking people amass. But the bottom line is, the top students at Baruch are much more IB focused than the top students at St Johns. Has anyone ever met a St Johns Iber? I know many Baruch students getting front-office gigs and our career center is great at assisting students to do so. If you're a top student, alumni connections and our CDC will hook you up. Trust me. PM me if you have any other ?'s. DO NOT GO TO ST JOHNS.
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