Banking/Consulting from Yale?

An0maly
Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:38:23 +0000

If a Yale student and Columbia student were going for the same job with all else equal .



This is a pointless statement. All else is never equal or even close. You can judge an applicant by their creds online, but real people do real interviews and that’s where the differences come.

As a Yale student (sophomore) who’s interested in finance, I’m happy to let you know that people complain about too many opportunities here for IB/consulting. A wide variety of companies come to recruit here, but every time the career fair rolls around, people say that there’s too much finance/consulting and we need more alternatives.

I think there are two generally accepted (and true) statements:


Yale has less kids interested in finance/consulting than Harvard or Wharton (both on an absolute and relative sense).
Everyone who wants to work in IB/consulting at Yale ends up somewhere in that area.


I’ve spoken to a lot of upperclassmen and graduates, and they’ve all said that you can get a job in IB/consulting if you want one. Now obviously it’s harder to get into some places (Goldman, McKinsey), but if you want a job in the field, everything is in place. Where you end up depends mostly on you.