<p>Ivies besides penn: all liberal arts anyway. you can’t major in finance at harvard and every major gets recruited for everything. </p>
<p>Everywhere else: it matters. all on campus recruiting for fortune 500’s i’ve seen SPECIFICALLY requires finance/accounting majors. you can’t even apply otherwise unless you’re a superstar econ major/chinese minor with a 3.9 and you convince the recruiter to give you a shot. there’s only 10-20 spots for on campus interviews. why would a recruiter take a shot on someone with a completely different skillset? they’d rather just take the top 20 marketing majors if the job is a marketing job.</p>
<p>kids coming out of undergrad b schools that are being recruited for big firms have a major leg up on their counterparts in the humanities. to say otherwise is absurd. i’m sorry your two business degrees weren’t fulfilling but perhaps you should have gone somewhere else or studied what you were actually passionate about. there is no reason to knock all finance majors.</p>