THE 2014 AND 2015 CORSAIR SOCIETY MEMBERS HAVE EARNED INTERNSHIPS AND FULL-TIME
David Williams, associate provost and director of the Honors Program, speaks at a September reunion of Corsair participants in New York.
“It still kind of takes my breath away that we have these kinds of opportunities,” says McCain, a UGA Foundation Fellow who works for J.P. Morgan, part of JPMorgan Chase & Co. “I’m very, very grateful to Corsair Society for the opportunity to be up here.” The 16 Corsair members with 2014 internships all earned job offers as their senior year began. “The fact that every single person in our class received an offer is significant, and I’m really proud of them for that,” says David Battle (BBA ’00), Corsair’s co-founder. “Participants have been more successful than anyone involved could have imagined.” Opening the doors on Wall Street is contributing to overall success at Terry, where the placement rate for the class of 2014 grew to 84 percent (up from 50 percent five years ago). The ripple effect is that more opportunities are available for UGA students.
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“The most challenging, difficult jobs you get, our students are getting them, and they’re getting them in scores, and they’re getting them in either London or New York or San Francisco or wherever,” says Les Franks (BBA ’89), a managing director at UBS Investment Bank. Corsair’s impact on Wall Street and other financial districts has driven Citi, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and McKinsey & Co. to begin traveling to UGA on recruiting trips. Wes Walraven (BBA ’83), global head of industrials at Citi, says when UGA students came to New York on their own dime they were ready to impress. Corsair is why Citi is recruiting at UGA this academic year (Duke is the only other Southern school), in addition to visiting Ivy League institutions. “They articulated very well they wanted to be an investment banker, which is an important question,” Walraven says. “They had a personality. They had poise in the interviews.”