Columbia for I-banking

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<p>nope, I have friends at every bulge bracket, I just happened to ask at 3 of the best, I could easily have asked at UBS or Credit Suisse or citi etc.

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<p>There’s more to selection bias than that. You cannot easily assume that your friends (many of whom are probably Columbia alums) are representative of people in (whichever segment of) i-banking. Since you’re more likely to know the school affiliation of i-bankers who went to Columbia than those who didn’t, your inherent Columbia bias becomes reinforced.</p>

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@confidentialcoll

Also I said either you tell people that there is a hierarchy when it comes to wall street recruiting and this is it, or you tell people going to any school doesn’t make a difference.

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<p>Why the binary distinction? Clearly, there exists a hierarchy between targets and non-targets. But among the targets, individual ability trumps school affiliation.</p>

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Do you think more than 20% of Columbia is interested in finance?

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<p>It’s certainly possible depending on how rigidly “interest” is defined, but that’s neither here nor there. Whether the “interest” is more or less than 20%, your assessment of Columbia’s pre-professionalism seems to be off the mark:</p>

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@confidentialcoll

Columbia is also not highly pre-professional, only 10-20% of the student body is actually interested in finance.

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<p>Compared to its peer institutions, Columbia IS “highly pre-professional,” if PhD production (per capita) is any indication:</p>

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Per Capita Undergrad Production of PhDs and Doctoral Degrees</p>

<p>Academic field: ALL</p>

<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees: 1994 to 2003 from NSF database </p>

<p>Enrollment from 2004 USNews </p>

<p>Formula: PhDs divided by undergrad enrollment times 1000 </p>

<p>1 California Institute of Technology 828
2 Swarthmore College 513
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 505
4 Harvey Mudd College 467
5 Reed College 394
6 Carleton College 394
7 Harvard University 386
8 Oberlin College 384
9 Yale University 351
10 Bryn Mawr College 342
11 Haverford College 330
12 Princeton University 328
13 Amherst College 320
14 Pomona College 316
15 Williams College 315
16 Grinnell College 298
17 University of Chicago 290
18 Rice University 288
19 Wesleyan University 286
20 Stanford University 269
21 Brown University 263
22 Wellesley College 263
23 Smith College 236
24 Kalamazoo College 227
25 Cornell University, All Campuses 222
26 University of Rochester 215
27 Duke University 210
28 Juilliard School 206
29 Earlham College 206
30 Vassar College 206
31 Mount Holyoke College 205
32 Bowdoin College 203
33 Barnard College 201
34 St Olaf College 200
35 Dartmouth College 199
36 Macalester College 195
37 University of California-Berkeley 193
38 Bates College 176
39 College of William and Mary 175
40 Lawrence University 175
41 Occidental College 174
42 University of Pennsylvania 174
43 College of Wooster 170
44 Trinity University 169
45 Brandeis University 169
46 Hendrix College 169
47 Beloit College 167
48 Knox College 166
49 Davidson College 164
50 Case Western Reserve University 164

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<p>In fact, Columbia is the only Ivy not to make the top 50 on this (objective) list. Even Barnard made it.</p>