Getting into Wall St. firms from Georgia Tech?

lmao2018
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:29:00 +0000

@InPursuit My honest opinion is that this forum has almost no value when making decisions such as these. We’re random users advising a person on the biggest decision of his/her life, yet we lack any understanding of the family’s financial situation and have a limited (or biased) understanding of the schools the OP is choosing from. For them to weigh my opinion or your opinion in even somewhat heavy regard would be incredibly foolish. The only value we add whatsoever is by presenting relevant information in an honest way. I feel that your posts poorly portrays the quality of the banking opportunities pursued by GA Tech students, and thus loses a little of its honesty.

That aside, GA Tech objectively has a very limited presence in Wall Street. The students there are smart so the door is potentially open, but it’s a very rare and difficult path. Living in NYC is a special experience. It’s loud, smells bad, and is very expensive, but it’s also one of the most exciting and fun places to live. Beyond that, the regional banks do not carry the rich exit opportunities and generally do much less complex work. Going to GA Tech and pursuing a regional banking opportunity, instead of pursuing a role in tech where they are very strong, makes almost no sense to me.

The top quant firms don’t recruit there. Maybe small prop shops do on occasion. Pursuing an MBA or any grad school adds a new level of complexity to this choice, and would be very expensive in any case.

In terms of other paths and compensation, management consulting and accounting are also both better at Dartmouth, but neither pays as well as banking early on, and accounting provides a much more rigid skill set and network. Obviously if the OP wanted to pursue tech than GA Tech is the better choice, but that was not the point of this post.

And yes, your post is preachy. I get the point you’re making, but it seems pretty clear that if OP wants to pursue finance then Dartmouth is better. Only he and his family know just how much $60k affects them, and no random user spouting a biased and often misinformed opinion has any insight into that.