<p>I will most likely be going to Harvard this fall. I am going to major in Chemistry with a minor in economics (and a pre-med concentration). However, I want to take a gap-year after college before enrolling into medical school and work for an I-Bank or something.</p>
<p>How difficult is it to get a high paying job with a Chemistry major from Harvard?</p>
<p>why would you want to be an investment banker for 1 year…</p>
<p>make enough money to pay off medical school or just a different experience…</p>
<p>If you tell your interviewers you only want to do it for a year I doubt they will hire you.</p>
<p>okay…lets say I change my mind about medicine and want to go into I-Banking.</p>
<p>It is not easy get a super high paying job in your first year even if you are a Harvard grad. You will have to start off as an analyst and work for a couple of years and impress your bosses. You may even need to get an MBA before you can move up to a high paying position. If you want to make a boat load of money and you get into a job that puts on track to be an investment banker you should not bother going to medical school, but there is no guarantee that you will get such a job. But if you want to save lives you should become a doctor. You may not be as rich as an investment banker, but you have much more job security.</p>
<p>If you want to be an investment banker, just forget about Med school and go for it.</p>
<p>If you really want to be doctor, gap year of work probably will not put you ahead financially in the long run because you will start your physician earnings one year later and the average physician salary is close to 200K. If you want to save money on Med school move to a state like Texas and establish residency while you work. Texas has very low in state medical school tuition for most of the state funded schools.</p>
<p>So just a couple of things:</p>
<p>1) IMO an IBD/S&T analyst is a VERY high paying job.
2) Obviously he’s not stupid enough to say he’d only want to be there for a year during the interview.
3) As long as you develop the skills necessary through classes, work experience, or EC’s, you’ll be very competitive. Harvard is one of the top 2 recruited targets in the country.</p>
<p>Only reason I was thinking about I-Banking or whatever is to get some sort of business experience. I am pretty dead-set on Medicine, but later on, as a physician I want to combine business and get into politics too so I am looking for those sorts of experiences that will give me not only breadth but also depth.</p>