<p>what's... ND?</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>OK, nobody responded the first time...</p>
<p>Is it advantageous to be multilingual for jobs relating to finance? I am fluent in English and Chinese, both of which I can read well, and I can write Chinese at a basic level. In addition, I take French but I am considering dropping my studies in French. Would keeping French be a good idea? I am studying French for my 5th year currently. I am also thinking of applying to the Huntsman Wharton program, which requires a 2nd language, and they recommended that I choose French.</p>
<p>Also, what are my chances of entering finance through the following schools: UChicago, Northwestern, Cornell, Duke, and Carnegie-Mellon? I know they are excellent schools, but not necessarily tier 1.</p>
<p>I am probably going to be going to BYU next winter as a transfer straight into the marriott school of business for finance, and want to go into ibanking. I know it isn't a 'target' school, but it still gets recruited by most of the top investment banks. I never took the sat because I didn't care that much in high school, and I am past the deadline to transfer to almost every school for fall (all the good ones esp.). So, considering many top schools don't even accept winter/spring transfer, and many that do require SAT or ACT scores, my options are extremely limited. But I will be very happy at BYU regardless as it is in my top 5 colleges that I would most want to be at personally, and would only take a chance at wharton, or ivies over it. I will almost be in a considerably better financial situation after graduating as I am in line to incur 0 debt with grant and scholarship money I receive which is a big deal to me.</p>
<p>Will I have a realistic chance of getting into a front office position such as IBD or S&T at a top IB? My uncles best friend is a longtime VP at GS, he is in jersey city currently, but was in NY for years. He will give me a strong recommendation, plus I expect to pull a very high gpa (I am transferring with a 4.0 and 65 credit hours which will carry over at BYU instead of starting over). I just hope that I can get a good position at an ibank, not just get a job at one, which is what concerns me most. Any advice?</p>
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Is it advantageous to be multilingual for jobs relating to finance?
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No, but it's still a good skill to have, and in my experience people who learn multiple languages and continually work on them are sharper mentally than people who do not.
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Also, what are my chances of entering finance through the following schools: UChicago, Northwestern, Cornell, Duke, and Carnegie-Mellon? I know they are excellent schools, but not necessarily tier 1.
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All of them give you good chances, all of them are good options. If you're going into Cornell econ, they do very well. Carnegie-Mellon and MIT are both essentially tied for #1 when it comes to quant work, if that's your bag. Northwestern has one of the best undergraduate economics programs, and the certificate programs are good if you can get into them. Duke has a strong alumni network, and that offsets the fact that it's not very close to a major city. I'd be slightly worried about Chicago from a GPA perspective since they're known for being almost arbitrary in grade deflation, but no one is going to say Chicago is a bad choice for preparing yourself to go into finance.</p>
<p>hello, i was wondering what are the career prospects in finance/iBanking of a person who has done an econ or business major from a liberal arts college like Franklin and Marshall, Macalester, etc .</p>
<p>im currently waitlisted at NYU stern and i really wanna go but if i dont get in , how would being in a LAC like fnm macalester or any other college of that level do?</p>
<p>Business Week ranked UVA's Commerce School #2 undergraduate business in country behind Wharton, how can you place it in the 3rd tier?</p>
<p>the business week rankings like virtually all rankings are a joke, but even if you do take them seriously that number 2 ranking is an overall ranking of the business school not an investment banking placement ranking...UVA and UVA McIntire are good feeders but are appropriately placed in the third tier</p>
<p>^^ quite true....many of the top tier schools feeding into investment banking dont even have undergrad business programs</p>
<p>So like...ND sucks for IB?</p>
<p>I was under the impression it was excellent for IB...</p>
<p>what about georgetown and northwestern and berkeley? all 3 of them better than nd?</p>
<p>baruch vs. indiana's kelley business school. which one?</p>
<p>Nevermind, don't answer my question Lax or that other guy who is similarly rude and obnoxious. I really don't care what you have to say.</p>
<p>ND 2012 BABY!</p>
<p>UCB Haas is the best for IB</p>
<p>UCB Haas, no questions. We spit out GS analysts like its nothin.</p>
<p>Ferrealz, yaddidamthizzinthough??!! Haas feeds GS like UWC feeds Ivies.</p>
<p>Haas spits out GS like Thizz Ent. spits out bay rappers</p>
<p>YIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiii YIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii</p>
<p>Just to bring up this thread with lax, I dont think you know a whole lot about ibank recruitment.... Texas Ibanking is different than NYC ibanking?, what the ****... are you kidding me or you retarded. Yea obviously Texas UG grad usually go to ibanking in Dallas or Houston, usually energy base (yea because its university of TEXAS???). But Texas UG, BHP, MPA, get alot of offers from giant firms in NYC, and I do go to career services at the school. They have a list of location/job/pay of the past grads, and the ibanking list have 10%-20%of the graduates that go to NYC and get ibanking jobs. I also have few friends at McCombs that recently went to NYC for internships with Goldman Sachs (and I'm just talking about people I know)</p>
<p>o and your arguement with joker, joker is wrong, but your are also very wrong.</p>
<p>look, i know nd is not a target. i dont think that i think nd is on par w/ hypsm, duke, dartmouth. i know its not. i think its a respectable school where students have a better shot than most schools ranked lower, and some ranked higher, per usnews.</p>
<p>yes, ND has a great business school, its probably not that difficult to get an ibanking job in NYC if you have the grades...</p>
<p>this applies to ND, but is a general question too. What about liberal arts majors at schools w/ good biz schools. For example, would a history major at Cornell or ND or umich get looked down upon compared to the biz grads?</p>