Wharton>(Harvard & Stanford)

transient
Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:29:30 +0000

a lot of the small investment banks only hire from wharton. it takes money to visit a school, interview students, and train new workers who were econ and english majors. they can get everyone they need (they have smaller class sizes too) at wharton sot hey don’t bother going anywhere else. the big banks hire from everywhere “good,” but the smaller ones won’t.

this isn’t important i guess if you plan on being at the top of your class, but wharton’s competitive and a lot of smart people for whatever reason will be in the upper part of the class but not high enough to merit a job at goldman.

as for selectivity, i really don’t think anyone would notice differences in a few percents or a few points on the SAT. my numbers may be a little old but the top 1% of all testtakers get 1480-1600 and the next 1% get 1440-1480. after 1400 in my opinion you’re just splitting hairs.