Should I turn down Oxford for UChicago?

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@ROTCherewego

By the way, his/her points about Wall Street being elitist and recruiting only from a select few colleges are absolutely on the mark. CHeck this forum: it’s full of discussion centering around whether certain colleges are good enough to be WS investment banking target schools or not. Investment Banking - College Confidential

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<p>According to a thread in the IB forum you cited, Chicago is not better than some state schools (Cal) and only slightly better than others (Mich, UVa) when it comes to WS recruiting:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1059765243-post3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1059765243-post3.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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0 Tier:
Harvard, Penn Wharton, Princeton, Stanford
(Yale is not as strong in Finance as it is in other areas)</p>

<p>1st Tier:
Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, Penn (non-Wharton), Duke, UCB Haas, NYU Stern, Chicago, MIT (sloan and others), Cal</p>

<p>2nd Tier:
Georgetown, Cornell, Brown, Northwestern, Rice, UVA, **UMich Ross **

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<p>I stand by what I said. Her dissing of some “state schools” in favor of Chicago as a WS target is wrong and not “useful” and “thoughtful” at all. It’s disingenuous to advise a prospective student to spent twice as much money to get exactly where s/he wants to go. Again, Chicago ain’t Harvard, Wharton or Stanford when it comes to WS recruiting. So stop tripping. Chicago just isn’t that elite, but it is arguably as elitist.</p>