skittitiYou're kind of all over the place with these schools, most of them are great, but Binghampton and Northeastern are pretty average to be honest. Never heard of RPI, too lazy to google the acronym so unsure about there. If you want to do business though, ND (if it's mendoza), UPenn (if it's wharton) and Cornell (if you get into the hotel school) are your best bets. I know a few guys from BU and BC that work on wall street as well, if that's of interest.
Not criticizing or questioning your school choices, just giving insight from someone who will be starting full time doing investment banking this summer, to give you perspective. good luck.
"kind of all over the place with these schools, most of them are great"
I don't know when you went to college, but these days it's not uncommon for people to apply to 10+ schools. Generally, it's suggested that one has safeties (schools you know you'll get into), targets (schools you should get into, but might not), and reaches (schools slightly above your stats academically, or those with super low acceptance rates.
Judging by what this kid wrote, I'm guessing Bing and Northeastern are his safeties, considering he said he knew he'd get in. No need to bash someone for having two top 60 schools as safeties, and probably getting scholarship $ at that.
Furthermore, these days, schools such as UPenn, ND, Cornell, etc. are crapshoots in terms of whether top students will get accepted. You apply to six in hopes of getting in to one. Gone are the days of being a double-legacy at ND, skimping HS work, and getting in based on daddies trust fund (for the most part) (and no offense to anyone who went/goes to ND, it's a great school.
If you had bothered to read the thread, you would have realized that this kid also doesn't want to do business, he's interested in engineering, which is why RPI (Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute) is an excellent option for him.
As I mentioned earlier, ivy admissions are a shit-show, and even more so for their business schools. Wharton, for example, is seen by many as the best business school in the nation. It's not like anyone is getting into UPenn, ND, Cornell, Harvard, and Yale's business schools, even if they were one of the most qualified applicants out there. Schools know what they want in a student, and not every school wants the same thing. Wharton has approx. a 75% yield rate. If you get in, you go.
Hope I cleared that up for you.