<p>This thread is hysterical.</p>
<p>Chicago is absolutely one of the best schools to go onto Wall Street, far better than Dartmouth, Northwestern, Brown and Cornell.</p>
<p>Wall Street firms love uChicago because the students are Economics majors, not business majors. That means that students are relatively clueless about some of the more practical aspects of Wall Street, and the firms have a blank slate to work with them.</p>
<p>When I was a student - I graduated in 2007 - Wall Street jobs were given out like CANDY to anybody with a 3.2 or above. Bank of America gave something like 25 offers. I got four offers with my 3.32 GPA - BofA, CS, UBS and BNP - although I ended up pursuing a graduate education instead.</p>
<p>Check out where Wall Street firms not only do OCI, but bring their big heads for elaborate on campus presentations. When I was at UChiago, we were one of only six schools where JP Morgan (who is the school’s second largest hirer after Teach for America; although they have a huge I-Banking operation in Chicago, which is where they hire most of the candidates) did this - the others being HYP, UPenn and Stanford.</p>
<p>Of course, things have changed for the worse since 2007, but it is still one of the top five or six schools to go to for a Wall Street career. No doubt.</p>
<p>As for the prestige thing, a Morgan Stanley VP probably said it best at a presentation for prospective hires that I was at back in the fall of 2006: “The only people who know how great a school University of Chicago is are the only people that matter.”</p>