<p>I'm a senior at an American high school but I've lived in Canada for most of my life. I want to pursue Investment Banking but my high school career has not gone very well. I know that with the stats I have I won't be able to get in to a target school in the states so I was wondering if a target school in Canada would be better. Schools in Canada are much easier to get in to and I could easily get in to University of Toronto, Ivey, or another top school in Canada. My plan would be to finish undergrad in Canada then pursue a job at a bulge bracket in the states. Would that be better than going to a non-target in the states such as Michigan State or Purdue? I know that one of the reasons banks in the states don't hire Canadians is because of immigration issues but I have dual citizenship so that wouldn't be an issue. What do you think I should do?</p>
<p>From a pure recruitment standpoint, you’re much better off going to Ivey, if you can get in and can handle living in Ontario for four years. Placement out of Ivey (and maybe even mcgill) will far exceed that of Michigan State or Purdue, though bay street will probably be more in reach than wall street.</p>
<p>Getting in to Ivey should be no problem and I don’t mind living in Ontario because I’ve lived in Canada my whole life but how much different is the Canadian IB scene from the American IB scene? As far as salary, hours, and lifestyle is it pretty much the same? If it is, I’d consider just staying in Canada.</p>
<p>Another option I was thinking of was going to MSU or a school like it, busting my ass to get a 4.0 and good EC’s and then applying to Wharton or another target/ivy for my MBA. Then after my MBA is done, going on with a career in IB. Do IB’s even offer jobs to people out of an MBA program?</p>
<p>Ivey is harder to get into than quite a few U.S. target schools…why do you think it will be easier? I then assume you’re just looking at maybe the top ~10 U.S. universities, but there are other target schools; for example, it’s probably easier to get into Texas, UNC, UVA, Michigan, NYU. Especially by transferring in after freshman year.</p>
<p>From what I know (which is quite a bit growing up in Canada), Ivey takes the best of the best in Canada. It’s going to be difficult to go from Ivey to NY BB - that’s mainly the top students of Ivey that are able to do that.</p>
<p>Bay Street, fundamentally, is the same type of people. I’d say in the U.S. it’s much more grandiose.</p>
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One step at a time, Junior. Yes of course IB’s offer to MBA grads.</p>
<p>Isn’t U of T extremely easy to get in to? I knew that so I just assumed all Canadian school were easy to get in to.</p>
<p>Despite being a top Canadian school, University of Toronto is fairly easy to get into but has a high flunk out rate. You do not seem to know a lot about Canadian higher education.</p>
<p>lol…it depends on the major, if it’s more liberal arts-focused it’s not too difficult, but science and engineering is very tough. Commerce is between that in difficult. U of T will be hard to get to Wall Street from anyways.</p>
<p>Queens Commerce & Ivey are the two main targets for Bay Street in Ontario, but Toronto does get some there. Ivey is probably the only one that has a non-negligible chance of getting to Wall Street.</p>
<p>lol Yeah I don’t know a lot about Canadian schools but that’s why I’m here haha. I guess I’ll just apply to Ivey and see if I can get in. If not I’ll go to a MSU caliber school and try to get in to an Ivy league MBA program.</p>