<p>Again, Chicago will always lose from a pure numbers standpoint. Many of the Econ majors are international students and many of those students will be heading back to their own country, not competing for jobs on Wall St.</p>
<p>Other students are more Mathematically inclined and look to move into hedge funds/trading shops, mostly in Chicago right after undergrad.</p>
<p>With that said, I would agree we certainly do not place as well as Princeton or Dartmouth. Dartmouth has a special program where students take the summer quarter between 2nd and 3rd year and then intern during the fall of their 3rd year at a bank. There is also a very high level of interest from Dartmouth students to get into investment banking.</p>
<p>Internship data is the same as full time data, the reputations all carry over. I would agree though that the culture here does not translate into the world of finance. We students tend to be a bit more nonconformist than some of our peers, which is a matter of personalities.</p>
<p>But, I will say again, if you have the personality and can make the grade here, you should have no problem getting onto Wall St. I wouldn’t NOT come to U of C because there might be a perception that Dartmouth places marginally better on the street.</p>