Placement Information


The students in the undergraduate Robert Day Scholars Program have placed exceptionally well over the last three years, resulting in a 98% placement rate. Please see below for more specific informatoin regarding employment and salary statistics.

Robert Day Scholars Compensation (U$D)

Figures exclude students pursuing employment or graduate school.
Not all students received bonuses.
Type of Compensation Average Range
Annual Starting Salary 60,000

 45,000-85,000
Signing Bonus

 9,200

 2,500-15000
Performance Bonus

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 5,000-60,000
Average Compensation: 69,200 (plus performance bonus)


Scholars Class of 2011


95% of the third class of undergraduate Robert Day Scholars secured fulltime employment. The 2011 Robert Day Scholars accepted fulltime offers from the following:

  • Acumen (Burlingame, CA) - Research Analyst
  • Amazon (Seattle, WA) - Associate Retail Manager
  • Barclays Capital (Menlo Park, CA) - Investment Banking Analyst
  • Bain & Co. (Los Angeles, CA) - Associate
  • Bill Gates Investments (Kirkland, WA) - Analyst
  • City Council Office of Eric Garcetti (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Deloitte Consulting (San Francisco, CA) - Associate
  • Deutsche Bank (New York, NY) - Analyst
  • Ernst & Young (Los Angeles, CA) - Audit Analyst
  • Google (Mountain View, CA) - Consumer Operations Associate
  • JMP Securities (New York, NY) - Investment Banking Analyst
  • Lazard & Freres (Century City, CA) - Investment Banking Analyst
  • Mercer Consulting (Los Angeles, CA) - Analyst
  • Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) - Derivatives Trading Analyst
  • Oliver Wyman Financial Services (New York, NY) - Analyst
  • Prudential Capital Markets (Los Angeles, CA) - Analyst
  • Relational Investors (San Diego, CA) - Associate Analyst

Additionally, one of our students will be pursuing graduate studies in mathematics and another was accepted into the 2+2 Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Scholars Class of 2010


100% of the second class of undergraduate Robert Day Scholars secured fulltime positions. The 2010 Robert Day Scholars accepted fulltime offers from the following:

  • Barclays Global Investors (New York, NY) - Analyst
  • Beach Fleischman & Co. (Tucson, AZ) - Accounting Associate
  • Citi (Los Angeles, CA) - Investment Banking Analyst
  • Credit Suisse (San Francisco, CA) - Investment Banking Analyst
  • Deloitte Consulting (Los Angeles, CA) - Associate
  • Deutsche Bank (New York, NY) - Analyst, Legal Risk and Capital
  • Federal Reserve (Washington, D.C.) - Flow of Funds Analyst
  • Google (Mountain View, CA) - START Program
  • Lazard (Los Angeles, CA) - Investment Banking Analyst
  • Macroeconomic Advisors (Washington, D.C.) - Analyst
  • Prudential Financial (San Francisco, CA) - Analyst
  • Teach for America (New Orleans, LA)
  • Wells Fargo (Los Angeles, CA) - Investment Banking Analyst

Additionally, many of our Robert Day Scholars have elected to continue their educational pursuits in various graduate programs, such as medical school and master in finance programs.

Scholars Class of 2009


The inaugural class of Robert Day Scholars placed exceptionally well, despite the downturn in economic conditions, with a 100% placement rate. The Robert Day Scholars accepted fulltime offers from the following:

  • Banc of America Securities (Los Angeles) - Investment Banking Analyst
  • Cambridge Associates (Boston, MA) - Associate
  • Cascade Investment (Seattle, WA) - Research Analyst
  • Deloitte Consulting (Los Angeles, CA) - Associate
  • Deloitte Consulting (San Francisco, CA) - Analyst
  • Deutsche Bank (New York, NY) - Analyst
  • Ernst and Young (Los Angeles, CA) - Auditor
  • Ernst and Young (San Francisco, CA) - Auditor
  • Houlihan Lokey (Los Angeles, CA) - Investment Banking Analyst
  • JP Morgan (New York, NY) - Investment Banking Analyst
  • LECG (Los Angeles, CA) - Associate
  • Merrill Lynch (Chicago, IL) - Investment Banking Analyst
  • Merrill Lynch (Los Angeles, CA) - Investment Banking Analyst
  • Merrill Lynch (London, England) - Trader, Equity
  • Teach for America (Los Angeles, CA) - High School Mathematics Teacher

Additionally, many of our Robert Day Scholars elected to continue their educational pursuits in various graduate programs, such as law school, master in finance programs, and Harvard Business School's 2+2 MBA Program.


Overall Placement History


The following firms have employed students of The Robert Day School in either an internship or full-time capacity.

Investment Banking and Trading

Banc of America Securities
Barclays Global Investments
CIBC World Markets
Citigroup
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Goldman Sachs
Houlihan Lokey
Jefferies
JMP Securities
Lazard & Freres
Merrill Lynch
Morgan Stanley
Montgomery & Co.
Piper Jaffray
Prager, Sealy & Co.
Prudential Financial
RBC Capital Markets
Relational Investors
Strategic Equity Group
UBS
Wells Fargo

Consulting

Analysis Group
Bain & Company
Boston Consulting Group
Deloitte Consulting
LECG
McKinsey & Company
Mercer
Monitor Consulting
NERA Economic Consulting
Navigant
Oliver Wyman



Asset Management & Hedge Funds

Cambridge Associates
Capital Group
Cascade Investment
Citadel Investment Group
Legg Mason
Oakmont Corporation
Payden & Rygel
PIMCO
Public Financial Management
Relational Investors
Taconic Capital
Trust Company of the West
Union Bank
Western Asset Management Company

 Accounting

Deloitte & Touche
Ernst & Young
KPMG
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Nonprofit/Government/Research

Central Intelligence Agency
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Macroeconomic Advisors
RAND Corporation
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of State

Corporations

Amazon
American Express
Boeing
Cummins, Inc.
DaVita, Inc.
Environmental Systems Designs
Google
IDS Real Estate Group
Intel
Kendall-Jackson Winery
NBC Universal
Standard & Poor's
Yahoo!