<p>hey i want to know wheather its easy to get a good job at a financial firm after graduating from vassar college. is it prestegious in the business world ? do many big companies come to recruit at vassar ? </p>
<p>guys please help. any input will be appreciated.</p>
<p>If you want to go to a women’s college from which “its easy to get a good job at a financial firm after graduating,” choose Wellesley.</p>
<p>Top companies recruit very heavily at Wellesley.</p>
<p>Ask your questions of Vassar’s career services center, and take the time to read the center’s on-line site</p>
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<p>I mean: consider, not necessarily “choose.”</p>
<p>I wouldn’t trust a poster who doesn’t know that Vassar is coed.</p>
<p>Like Northstarmom says, this is more a question for career services and recent alums.</p>
<p>Oops. My good friend’s aunt went to Vassar when it was still a women’s college. And the only people who I know that go there are female.</p>
<p>So I keep associating Vassar with a women’ college even though I KNOW it’s coed.</p>
<p>My apologies to the OP.</p>
<p>Still, my point about Wellesley is true.</p>
<p>I was about to say, yes, Vassar has been co-ed for quite some time now.</p>
<p>You might want to call their Career Development Office to speak with a representative who’ll be glad to give you a list of firms that actively recruit at Vassar.</p>
<p>Ohmygosh. Vassar’s coed now? Where do Yale men go for dates anymore?</p>
<p>I think your question needs to be more general.
By this I mean, you should be asking “is it easy to get a good job at a financial firm after graduating”? Not specifically from vassar, or harvard, or mit, or x school. Chances are all of your classmates in those feeder majors to financial firms will end up being your competition. Not all of your classmates end up getting hired by their first choice or even at all. Those who get hired are those with the most qualifications(gpa, internship, work experience, personality, etc)
A school doesn’t get you a job. You do. No one hands you things just because you attend a school. Landing those competitive position requires you to stand out from all the other thousands of students from around the country graduating from schools on par, better, or less than Vassar.</p>
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Since when do Yale men date women? ;)</p>
<p>As far as employers go, yes, they hire LAC students. The recruiting process is sometimes a bit different, though; students often visit a major city for a recruiting session. Vassar does, however, also invite employers to recruit on campus.</p>
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<p>Vassar will give you a great education, but it definitely lags behind the top schools in terms of placing people in top wall street positions. A school like NYU Stern or northwestern is equally difficult to break into, but will place much better at financial firms. I’m saying this after being through wall street recruiting cycles. I will also likely be working on wall street next year, so I have some perspective when I say that few top notch companies send their best divisions to Vassar’s campus. You’ll have great divisions at second tier companies and top notch companies sending second tier divisions to Vassar. Obviously some Vassar students break into top divisions at top firms, but these rarely recruit on campus and that exemplary student got it independent of whether they went to Vassar.</p>
<p>ok 1st of all im a guy… so im not going to wellesley (i wouldnt mind though 
) secondly i love vassar and i fell that im a perfect fit. but i also am intersted in bakning and finance and would like to get a good job after college that will pay me about 50-60 K a year. i want to know wheather that will be easy or difficult since vassar is not a target school and its not a big university, rather its a small lac. </p>
<p>so what do u think ?</p>
<p>if you love Vassar and feel you’re a perfect fit, then apply and stop worrying so much about what will happen four years from now! Vassar is a highly regarded LAC and a degree from the school will serve you well in any field you choose.</p>
<p>I’ve been out of it for a long time, but back in the day, Vassar was one of the several excellent schools that were nonetheless not actively recruited by my firm for analyst positions. As far as I could tell. Reason probably had to do with perceived prevailing campus culture, thought to attract smaller percentage of potential applicants qualified & interested in Wall Street positions, vs. some of the others. Of course if an influential partner had attended Vassar, or had a kid there, that would have all been different.</p>
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<p>Haha. The gender ratio at Vassar could serve you well, my friend…</p>
<p>what happens 4 years down the line is important… because i don’t want to be just some ‘dynamic’, very well educated guy who knows everything about the world but is stuck without a job, who will eventually die criticizing capitalists and the government.</p>
<p>what happens within the 4 years is MORE IMPORTANT. If you came out of any top business school in the country that is a target school for what you consider “good jobs”, with a high gpa, and NO work/internship experience, you will not get the “good job” that other classmates will or other students from other schools will who all have significant and relevant work experience. A SCHOOL DOESN’T give you or get you a job, YOU do.
There is no unlimited number of “good jobs” out there. Wherever you go, even if it’s penn, you will be competing with your classmates. No company with “good jobs” hires 100 percent of all students of a given school’s major.</p>
<p>Lastly, wherever you go, you’ll be in for a big shock if you think life is easy to plan out. It’s not a matter of step 1, step 2, step 3, or plan A only, you will need Plan Bs Cs and maybe jump a step or take a time on one step. You can get a “good job” 3 years out of college after working for a “not so good job.” It’s rare for you to end up sticking to one company or one job straight out of college for the rest of your life. If you look at craigslist, of any major us city, there are bound to be internships posting that will build a resume, and sometimes the only requirements for them is an education or degree in a relative major(econ/business/etc). These companies might not be “BIG NAME” but these companies will provide the relevant experience or knowledge or exposure that the “BIG NAME” companies will want to see on a resume, whether straight out of college, or years down the road.</p>
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<p>this tells the OP absolutely nothing, and is factually incorrect. Your school does actually make a huge difference in where you get a job, especially in finance. Companies target a few schools where they interview on campus and will hire kids from, if the company does not recruit on campus they will scarcely consider interviewing a kid. Your internship and work experience again is directly connected to the school that you go to, you interview for Soph and Junior year internships on campus and then for full-time.</p>
<p>How do I know this? I’m at Columbia and some pretty mediocre kids here (think gpa= ~3.0-3.2) managed to land jobs that will pay a base salary of 60-70k before bonus. kids with a 3.4-3.5 have landed jobs in investment banking at Barclays, Morgan, JP Morgan etc. Even a couple of top consulting firms have hired kids this year who look average on paper but are stellar interviewers and actually very smart people in real life. The investment bankers will likely earn over a 100k in their first year out of college after bonus. This is the same at Penn, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and a few other schools, but it is restricted to a few. </p>
<p>At Vassar you will have to be the 4.0 student who’s captain of a varsity sport to land these jobs, big big difference. When an equivalent firm didn’t recruit on Columbia’s campus, they barely interviewed anyone even though they had dozens of qualified Columbia applicants applying through their website. Firms that target certain schools are forced to recruit on campus, they are forced to interview X number of kids, and they often send Alumni back to interview students so there’s already some connection. They also have a relationship with the career center. Your chances of landing a high paying, prestigious job in finance are maximized by going to a top school (that’s not to say you’ll be unemployed after Vassar). </p>
<p>While many people on this forum have a strong distaste for finance, and believe the industry is dying, it still by a long shot pays the most straight out of college. Only Google and Apple can match salaries, but those are only a handful of very competitive firms.</p>
<p>^^ thank you for being the only helpful person here !!</p>