Hey,
I can't really find any up-to-date information on Bowdoin College on this website. I'm strongly considering going ED1 there, but I'm not sure about my future prospects. I'm not trying to pick my school for finance placement, but it is a factor I'm considering.
I really like Bowdoin because of its academic atmosphere and location (really love Maine) as opposed to the state flagships with the partying and frats. I might get MS'd for saying that on here, but that is just how I feel. Additionally, I really am interested in IB/NYC Finance. I'm trying to figure out how Bowdoin stacks up. According to Linkedin, there are about ~200 alums in NYC finance, so quite small, but the alumni network is already pretty small so not as bad as it seems. I've also heard that the alum networks are much tighter than say at other schools (flagship publics). There seem to be a handful of recent alums scattered throughout the BBs. Only problem is that it seems like a lot of the kids getting these jobs are white, upper-class kids who played a varsity sport at Bowdoin, went to Choate or Andover before enrolling at Bowdoin and went to the Tuck Bridge Program that costs like $10k for 1 month. It seems like some of these kids might have prior connections to the firms (dad is an Goldman MD or something). As a middle class, Hispanic that lives in the South, doesn't play sports (I play intramural sports, if anything), and doesn't have any connections to IB or finance whatsoever, I feel like I will be a huge fish out of water and might get a significant short end of the stick in terms of trying to land a job at an investment banking firm from Bowdoin.
Any ideas of what the scene is like at Bowdoin, how finance recruitment is, and how it stacks up to Midd/Amherst/Williams/Colby?