The Product

Everyone knows the name of the game. Brave the endless coffee chats, the application, multi-round interviews (run by people no more than two years older than you) to get into the right club, work your way up to Executive Board by any means, network at every turn, and soon you'll be looking at an offer letter from the company of your choice. The not-so-easy part is choosing which club to spend 10 hours a week for the next 4 years.

At its heart, Elitist is a centralized database that tracks where alumni from Cornell's engineering and finance student organizations end up working at. Normally, all this information is scattered across Reddit posts, word of mouth intel during Clubfest, and self-congratulatory club info sessions.

The Data & Methodology

Placement data and number of alumni tracked are sourced using the alumni tool from LinkedIn, which can be accessed by going to Cornell's page. Data breakdowns on major and grad year, as well as the information presented in the Networking tool were available on the clubs' websites, which are publicly available and accessible to all. Lastly, information such as weekly time commitment, acceptance rate, and recruiting cycles are provided directly from club leadership.

The Founder

Currently run by one Bryan Kim (Mechanical Engineering '27). You might also know me as the person who hung posters around Upson, Duffield, and Gates last semester looking for a summer internship (it ended up working out). As someone whose (not-so-rich) parents didn't go to college in the US, I had no idea what high finance and big tech were entering Cornell. This meant a lot of rejections from various pre-professional clubs that might have given me an edge in navigating today's job market. I built this site to loop in anyone else who's in a similar situation, to give them the map I never had, so that they can find the right people to network with and the right clubs to join.

Right now, I'm studying for the patent bar (aiming to take it around winter) and looking for a full time patent agent role, preferably in NYC, so feel free to reach out!