<p>I am a sophomore at the University of Washington in Seattle planning on getting a triple degree in finance, computer science, and philosophy. I know the UW's Foster Business School is supposed to be pretty prestigious, and I have been interested in the field of investment banking for a few years now. However, I live on the opposite side of the country from most of those jobs. If I do well enough here at the UW, is it possible for me to get a job in i-banking? If so, what should I do to increase my chances?</p>
<p>Investment banking is so competitive now a days, I don’t think three majors will cut it… you will also need degrees in chemical engineering and accounting as well.</p>
<p>pester alumni (if any) and some day they’ll forward that resume to HR.</p>
<p>New York may be the dream, but west coast offices are much more realistic.</p>
<p>Very, very unlikely if you’re not at a target school.</p>
<p>You can get into A investment banking firm, but probably not a bulge bracket/lazard/evercores and whatnot. I would find a lot of boutique/MM banking firms in Seattle, request for an unpaid summer internship, get good experience there a couple of years, get a high GPA with a couple of ECs, and that should set you up for a BB your junior year. Otherwise, get an MBA and lateral as an associate at a BB later.</p>
<p>You don’t really need EC, just high GPA especially in the quantitative course. You’ll best bet is in the west coast offices. There’re IB offices in the bay area. However, ibanking is difficult to getting to because they typically only recruit at very prestigious schools. Stanford probably got the west coast ibanking on lock.</p>
<p>^Dude, there are banks besides Bulge Brackets out there. Yeah, the OP is probably screwed for BB San Fran/LA banks because Stanford, Berkeley, USC and to a lesser extent UCLA will get taken over him, but if you’re persistent, you can get into a MM in Seattle and then eventually move into MM PE later on. Yeah, he probably won’t end up at KKR/TPG, but you can still do banking if you just be persistent and contact enough alumns. Networking is the name of the game, not school brand.</p>