<p>From what I hear from my family members who work in investment banking, securities, and hedge funds on Wall Street is that the jobs are not easy to get. Because the jobs are so high paying there’s a lot of competition and if you didn’t go to a school like Stern, Columbia, Harvard, Penn, uChicago the chances of breaking in to investment banking are drastically reduced, though not impossible just much harder. Also many of the people working at the banks went to places like Columbia and prefer hiring/working with people like them so it’s sort of a cycle. Basically a big assumption you’re making is that you’ll get in to investment banking when the school you’re attending isn’t necessarily a “target.” Feel free to disagree I’m also in high school and about to go to college and want to do the same thing as you but I also have a lot of family working on the street I can talk to.</p>