It’s harder to get a job at Goldman Sachs than it is to get into Harvard.
No, really. This year, the nation’s oldest university accepted 3.6% of its freshman applicants. Per CEO David Solomon, esteemed investment bank Goldman Sachs received “a little over” 300,000 applications for entry-level jobs from new college grads last year—and they hired about 2,500. That’s under a 1% acceptance rate, give or take—a percentage Solomon takes pride in.
