Can cornell hotel school undergrad students get into good investment banking firms?
The hotel school would seem a weird choice to me for someone who knows they want to go into investment banking. There is a finance major in the hotel school but it’s still very much geared towards the hospitality industry. Dyson would seem to be a better fit for investment banking.
I’m curious what others answer here. Dyson probably is good, but I believe it has less than a 3% acceptance rate. That’s a pretty tall hurdle to jump over.
I’d look at Dyson rather than the school of hotel management. But in any event investment banking jobs are not easy to get.
The hotel school would not be a good choice for investment banking. In addition to Dyson, I think you have shot if you do well in the Engineering or Arts and Sciences with a strong background in quantitative majors/classes. When I was involved with hiring for a bulge bracket firm, I was more attracted to applicants with quantitative backgrounds (e.g. engineering, math, physics, comp sci, econ with a heavy dose of math) than business/finance majors for analyst positions. That may have been me, but a lot of my colleagues shared the same view that we wanted to hire the “best athlete available” in terms of understanding the relationship of data/numbers to each other.