<p>malikat: what does an investment banker do?</p>
<p>isn't berkeley students more intelligent than la ones? i heard that some students in berkeley are so smart that they go insane and commit suicide on the golden gate bridge. is this true? if it is, i will choose berkeley so i could be exposed to their intellectual greatness. it will so cool to have a friend that talks in riddles or add trivias at the side of the main dish of really truly significant topics of conversations like global warming, quantum mechanics, einstein's relativity, plato, plotinus, ovid, cicero, tacitus, plutarch, etc.</p>
<p>even cooler: ur intelligent friend speaks to u in greek or latin, so u have to learn those languages to communicate with him. just imagine how much u will learn outside classes (which will be a field of battle between people superior to u in intelligence) by having such friends!!!</p>
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<p>I hope you weren't being serious when you asked this question.</p>
<p>they jump off evans</p>
<p>in the same boat, ucla bizecon or ucb haas?</p>
<p>Guys,</p>
<p>Go and visit both campuses. Even if Haas is more prestigious, if you don't enjoy life in the Bay Area, you'll not do well.</p>
<p>Prestige is not everything.</p>
<p>uclari, i totally understand. i grew up in the bay area and love it except for the weather. i love la's weather. ucla has the teaching style i want, but i want to go into investment and finances, which haas is good for. so.. that's my dilemma. if i get regents for la, i am definitely going. if i don't, i will have to consider for a bit longer.. any advice?</p>
<p>Most of the same places that are going to recruit at Haas will also swing by UCLA. You will not be totally screwed out of a job just because you're not at Haas, nor will Haas be any guarantee of the contrary.</p>
<p>I recommend that you not worry about making yourself into a job machine, and instead remember that you can always just enjoy your 4 years of college for the sake of enjoying them.</p>
<p>thanks! i'll pm you if i have any more questions. my situation is actually more complicated!! or maybe it's just me.. haha.</p>
<p>UCLAri, do you know of any links to the companies that recruit at UCLA. I have checked out the career center website but couldn not find a list....</p>
<p>This</a> link is one of the recent job fairs. It is by no means all the companies that UCLA grads can get jobs at, however. But it shows a good sample.</p>
<p>Wow thank-you so much UCLAri!! That clarifies a lot for me. Almost all the potential companies I would like to work at ACTIVELY recruit at UCLA, and i am sure the others would consider me for an interview. </p>
<p>So basically I cannot go wrong wheter i end up at UCLA or CAL, in term of career prospects since UCLA is recruited at by most buldge bracket firms.</p>
<p>If you compare UCLA even to Harvard, about 90% of the same companies are recruiting at UCLA, but from their West Coast offices. Only a few East Coast firms aren't out in force at UCLA. </p>
<p>Now you just need to get an internship, work your butt off, and look good to all your future employers. :)</p>
<p>Well lucky for me I plan to work in LA, which is not traditional in banking. Though talking to my sister, who is a strategy consultant in LA, if you are at a West Coast school, you can get hired from on the West and easily transfer to the East Coast. Though she got hired coming out of Stanford....</p>
<p>Anyway like you said, getting the internship is vital....but it is actually harder to get than the actual job in term of percentages.</p>
<p>yeah, I heard the percentage for getting an internship position at an investment bank is around 10%.</p>
<p>10%? Man, I wish I had it that easy...</p>
<p>Well it really depends....if you are talking about buldge brackets(the major players), it is nowhere close to that high. For example, for an analyst spot, there will be 20,000 applications nationwide. Of those a few thousand will get first round interviews, second round interviews about 500 will compete, and 90-110 offers will be made. This info comes directly from a recruiter at Goldman Sachs. </p>
<p>Anyway, you can see that the numbers can be quite ridiculous....</p>
<p>Oh and that is not for a internship......internship positions have less applications, but a third the number of offers. They are even harder to get.</p>
<p>Pfft.</p>
<p>You guys have it way easy. My jobs have tens of thousands of applicants with a large percent getting offers taken away later because of the security clearance. </p>
<p>Pfft, private sector babies. :p (I'm kidding, for the record)</p>
<p>i've visited cal, ucla and usc but i still can't decide which one i want the most...:(</p>
<p>cal is good overall
ucla's econ is competitve and strong
usc marshall and laventhal are good and i believe they are getting even better and more competitve</p>
<p>what do u guys think?</p>
<p>berkeley econ vs ucla econ?
marshall vs ucla bizecon?</p>
<p>out of all 3, which program will be the hardest?
how about job oppurtunities then?</p>