I am currently a junior in high school and I am
Interested in becoming an investment banker when I am older. I have always wanted to go to SMU, however I am unsure if that would be
The right school for me if I want to become an
Investment banker. Would I have a good
Chance at receiving an offer from a big IB firm if I went to SMU and then got my MBA
Somewhere that investment banking
Companies Target?
Stern at NYU
Ross, Stern, Wharton, UVA. Haas
MBA schools which investment banking firms recruit from (chances are higher for IB jobs) are generally from the Ivies, Stanford, Northwestern, Chicago, etc. or top 15 MBA programs.
At the undergraduate level, you’ll have a higher chance for IB jobs with a degree from top undergraduate business schools like Haas, Wharton, etc. named above. You can also major in business economics or economics with math from a top notch school like UC Berkeley, UCLA, MIT, etc. and get an IB job with a firm like Goldman Sachs. Your GPA needs to be at the top (4.0 or close to it).
Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Penn, Brown, Cornell, Princeton, and Columbia are some good ones. Also, Amherst, Williams, and Wesleyan too. Don’t forget MIT and Stanford.
Think about why you wanna be investment banking. Also, why not an engineer or doctor. If its shortcuts to other things you seek, you’ll be very disappointed.
The first thing you need to learn is that easy answers are not always, or ever, the right answers. Many off the answers you are getting on here are from other high schoolers. Do they really know more than you?
If your goal is IB or S & T, you need to earn how to research answers. Figure out what schools you should go to and whether or not you can be accepted. If you do not think so, figure out a convincing reason you should be accepted.
Once accepted, select a fairly or very rigorous major and get a very high GPA. If selecting a less rigorous major, supplement it with something of interest, such as a rigorous minor in IT, math, stat, business.
Banks generally won’t select students with GPA’s below 3.0. Anything higher the better.
I think it is too early to know with certainty that you want to banking. But try to get into a solid business school with a good finance major program. I worked at a bulge bracket investment bank this summer and I go to Villanova, finance major.
Penn, NYU, Ross, Emory, UVA