<p>Let me put it this way: when you have your first round on campus interview, engineers will have some mercy because the people who are interviewing you are Cornell alum. When you go to second-round, though, you will have some random VP or Director interviewing you who probably couldn’t point out Cornell on a map. Your school and GPA are the biggest factors. If you are in the engineering school, your GPA will drop – no doubt about it. In the engineering world, it wouldn’t matter because of the prestige. It will in the business world, though.</p>
<p>afchang23: companies come on campus to host resume drops. Everyone throws there resume in, they select a couple, they interview on campus, if they like you then you pass onto second-round interviews, and if you pass that, you get the internship. Getting a goldman internship takes serious hustle, luck, and effort, though. I would say 90% of the kids deserve to be there; they usually cut around 15% by the end anyway.</p>