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<p>look, I picked 3 top banks and asked friends there what the firmwide statistics announced were. If you have any friends at a BB ask about Columbia representation. I could just have easily chosen other banks, but I wanted some point of reference.</p>
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<p>why the binary distinction, a company might interview 50 first round at X and 5 first round at Y. Y is as good as a non target, there is clearly a spectrum, so either you provide that spectrum or some semblance of it, like tiers, or you say going to any school doesn’t make a difference.</p>
<p>finally perhaps Columbia is pre-professional, but it isn’t finance centric so even if people are not going on to get PHDs, observationally and according the career center, at least 80% tend to be primarily interested in other fields.</p>