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<p>Well if we are talking Wall Street placement, then Dartmouth by FAR. WashU is not even a target for most prominent Wall Street firms.</p>
<p>Dartmouth, no question about it. I do not know why everyone is giving truaz a hard time. Everything he said is rather accurate. Then I realize that a lot of you fit the California stereotype, so…I wont even go there.</p>
<p>dcd, I feel bad about your horrible experience. Unfortunately, I think the problem was …you. You certainly have some issues to deal with and you may not be aware of them. A therapist may be a start. You should not blame a whole institution because you did not 'FIT". </p>
<p>I am pretty sure that there are people every where who end up having some big gripe with their alma mater as a result of their own… short comings.</p>
<p>The thread was started by a poster interested in UG pre-med programs, not business.</p>
<p>dcd, you said:</p>
<p>“Here’s what I kind of had in mind for a college: big college in a major city, plenty of opportunities, students walking around with bright green mohawks, holding protests in the cafeteria over stupid stuff just because they can (i.e. not paying the cafeteria workers enough), wearing plenty of tie-dye, playing instruments on the sidewalk, smoking pot on the sidewalk (Not that I do it, but I thought it would’ve been fun to be in that type of environment), walking around with Starbucks (granted when I enrolled in 2001, Starbucks was still cool), traditional semester system.”</p>
<p>and you applied to Dartmouth??? Dude, I am really serious and I hate to sound rude, but you have shown such a lack of insight and poor judgement that no wonder you are miserable with your life. Get help. It is never too late and you can bring some sanity and joy to the rest of it while you are still young.</p>
<p>It is not Dartmouth fault. It is yours.</p>
<p>I feel bad for dcd and I understand how it can be hard to make friends. But I really disagree that there aren’t opportunities. Given the number of roommates you’ll have, the ability to join teams/ frats, sophomore summer, study abroad programs, and classes (people in your major) there are ample opportunities to meet people after first year. Dartmouth has many welcoming groups of people. I transferred and 80% of my best friends were people who were there first year while I wasn’t.</p>
<p>slipper,
just curious about where the numbers in your previous post on the 5/7 banks and 4/5 consulting firms recruiting at Dartmouth came from (and which firms chose not to recruit on campus). From this list of companies holding on campus interviews compiled by sybbie, it seems that all of the possible bulge bracket banks were on it:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=3022731&postcount=13[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=3022731&postcount=13</a></p>
<p>for consulting all 5 “elites” were on campus: bain, mckinsey, mercer, monitor, bcg
out of the 10 top banks, only ubs, credit suisse, and bear stearns were missing
<a href=“Dartmouth College | Center for Professional Development”>Dartmouth College | Center for Professional Development;
<p>Yeah but there i a difference between being a “core” school and attending a fair. Its a very common source of confusion. I was using --vault.com–. The numbers may be slightly outdated. Regardless, Dartmouth is only after HYPS when it comes to the number of elites on campus.</p>
<p>slipper1234 - I’m looking to get into the demographic field. Thanks for the link. Unfortunately it didn’t work… but I’ll def. check into career services, thanks for the tip. Yeah, I’m not going to deny that the vast majority love it like it’s home. Still doesn’t mean that there’s something for everyone.</p>
<p>johnwesley - UCLA, Berkeley, and USC. Possibly reaches… but I know someone else who applied to 11, most of which were definitely not reaches, and also got rejected from every single one.</p>
<p>Oh, trust me serchingon. I’m very well aware that I have issues. Appreciate your input though. It was bad for more reasons than just ‘FIT’. Read my worst of the worst post again. Besides when you’re 17 (as I was when I decided to go there), you don’t always make the best judgement calls. To be fair, though, I honestly thought the ‘Dartmouth’ brand would help me in real life (I certainly don’t expect anyone to worship the ground I walk on per se… but I thought it would help fast-track me to a successful career), and <em>that</em> was more important than what was going on while I was at college. It was also the only thing that kept me going while I was miserable. And now that it’s no help in the real world, the part that was supposed to make it all worth it… doesn’t.</p>
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<p>Hi Dionysus,</p>
<p>bain, mckinsey, mercer, credit suisse, and bear stearns definitely recruit on campus for both internship and permanent placement. D has friends who are currently working this summer at each of these firms (she went to brunch with some of them over the weekend). Many of these postions are posted through the schools InterviewTRAK, (in monstertrak), there is a resume drop then on/off campus interviews are held.</p>
<p>Dcd,</p>
<p>What’s the demographic field? Market research?</p>
<p>Man, if we are talking about Wall Street placement Dartmouth wins by a landslide. Most schools don’t update what companies recruit - its just known that Dartmouth is awesome.</p>
<p>Why is this even a question?</p>
<p>Dartmouth hands down.</p>