NYU CAS Econ to BB?
Hello,
I was recently admitted into NYU's class of 2026 as an economics major at the College of Arts and Sciences. I have a few questions:
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What are the prospects like for CAS Econ students compared to Stern students?
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Do CAS Econ students have access to Stern recruiting?
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Which minors should I add to make myself more attractive in the hiring process?
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How feasible is an internal transfer into Stern if it turns out that it's absolutely necessary for what I want to do (BB Investment Banking)?
Before any of you ask, the reason I applied and got in for Cas Econ rather than Stern is that I wasn't confident enough in my stats, and ultimately wanted to play it safe. CAS in itself is incredibly difficult now (9% acceptance last year), so I felt that Stern would be far out of possibility considering it's even more difficult. Yes, I could have applied and got into less competitive business schools, but I ultimately decided that I like NYU too much as a whole to consider some of those as options for my first choice (Early Decision) school.
Any advice would help, and thank you in advance!
Anecdotal but maybe helpful: roommate this summer worked at JPM and there were more NYU CAS students than Stern. This is for IB
Really? Damn that’s wild. Eases me a bit lol thx
Are You Kidding lol
(from a NYUCAS student)
Stern student here, have quite a lot CAS friends who also recruited for IB so here's my observation:
Hope some of my 2 cents helps and congrats on your acceptance.
Thank you for your comment! I will probably do the business studies minor along with maybe a math or data science one. From your comment, it seems as a whole like the IB placement is difficult but possible, so I’ll just try my best. Again, thanks!
Specific question: Does Evercore only recruit from Stern or also CAS?
From what I have heard, Evercore has a strong preference for Stern kids over CAS kids - I think ~8-9 placed into M&A for 2023.
As someone who is in Stern, I'll echo this 100%. A lot of the CAS kids place really well because they know they want to get into IB early (sometimes earlier than Stern kids) and really get to hustling. They err on the hardo side but it's because they have to do more work relative to Stern kids since the recruiting specific resources aren't as readily available and there is a branding preference some firms have when choosing between Stern / CAS.
Clubs offer you good exposure to upperclassman and can be a good network to have but they are highly selective / exclusionary. I tried recruiting for some of the clubs freshman year, got utterly destroyed in interviews / ghosted so I decided I was done with clubs and recruited on my own. And like the post above mentioned, successful recruitment is possible without this club access - I landed a BB IBD internship for my sophomore summer and an EB IBD M&A internship for my junior summer.
Don't get discouraged, start working early and you'll find that recruiting will come easy to you.
Both my girlfriend and I graduated from NYU CAS Econ a couple years ago and both made it to BB's after undergrad. We weren't exceptional students either with very average GPA's and a lack of extracurricular activities so the notion that you need to be a top student at CAS Econ to even get a chance on Wall Street is false. I don't want to give you the idea to not work hard but I just wanted to reassure you that it's not as hard as this site and others make it seem.
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