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<p>While going to an Ivy is an advantage, you can still break into IB coming from non-Ivy. As long as your college gets decent recruiting from I-banks, it depends on your individual performance and drive to get the type of job you want. Schools such as UNC, U Virginia, U Michigan, and U of Illinois are some of the schools that aren’t that selective, yet get plenty of recruiting from I-banks.</p>
<p>Also, going to an Ivy in and out of itself doesn’t guarantee anything. I graduated from an Ivy recently, and about half the kids of my class was unemployed at graduation. From my impression, only top quarter of the class at my college got their first-choice jobs. The rest either settled for jobs that weren’t very desirable for them or many others graduated unemployed.</p>