What’s the best NESCAC school for IB placement?

I got an offer to play football from every NESCAC school except Williams, Amherst, Middlebury and conn college (doesn’t have a football team). Obviously I am aware that the ones who didn’t offer me are the best of the bunch but my grades would not cut it. Don’t have the grades to go anywhere better than NESCACs. Even though it’s not the biggest factor, I wanted to get your guys’ opinion on the matter.

 

Bowdoin and Wesleyan are more "prestigious" in a general social and academic sense, but Hamilton and Trinity probably send more grads into finance. That is in part due to selection bias: The culture at the latter two schools is a bit less "liberal artsy" and a bit more pre-professional than the vibe at Bowdoin (great all-around school) and Wesleyan (increasingly prone to PC self-parody), so kids interested in finance are more likely to end up at Hamilton or Trinity in the first place.

 
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I went to a NESCAC, intimately familiar with most of them. Info on here is hit or miss.

Bowdoin is the best school, but probably not the best in terms of placing onto wall street. Bowdoin student body had a weird vibe to me, intellectual and artsy was my feel.

Out of the remaining NESCACs, I'd probably go with Tufts as having a balance of location, placement, and fun. Plus it's a little bigger than the other NESCACs which I think is an advantage. Lots of athletes means decent placement onto Wall Street.

Wesleyan is also decent, but it's on an IB recruiting powerhouse either.

Hamilton and Colby are actually pretty good, middle of the pack for NESCAC, but they have lots of alums on wall street. David Solomon from Goldman is a Hamilton alum. Both Colby and Hamilton have targeted career center programs to help kids place into finance jobs.

Trinity is the bottom of NESCAC, most fratty, but has ok placement as well. I wouldn't go here if you have other options though.

Am I leaving any of them out? Bates? Don't know much about Bates to be honest.

At the end of the day if you didn't get Amherst, Williams, or Midd all the rest of the schools are kind of the same. I'll give my usual answer which is, you really need to try and visit some of them, if you don't have the means to get to all of them, try and whittle it down to 3/4 and go sit in on a class, meet the football team, do an overnight stay etc, and you'll kind of feel what is right. Of the above, you can't really go too wrong and all will place you into IBD if that's what you want to do.

 

Yea I’ve been def leaning for Colby tbh. Done my official visits for Colby, Wesleyan, Bowdoin, and Bates. And not to offend anyone, but the vibe I got from every school except Colby was LGBT/Liberal/SJW/ etc. nothing wrong with any of that haha but I’m more of a “preppy” guy myself. Loved the coaches at Colby and have a few players from my hs playing there now.

 

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