<p>By the way, you are so right on your future plan. Taking extra math courses will greatly enhance your profile to just about any recruiters. Try to take as many advanced math classes as you can. You will receive a ton of benefits in the job search process.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Btw...just out of curiosity...what is your job...and can you explain what it entails...unless its like an accountant.</p>
<p>My first job was a financial analyst position that focused on creating excel spreadsheets for the purpose of financial analysis, creating pitchbooks (powerpoint presentation), writing memos, and research.</p>
<p>I worked for a global real estate consulting firm in the LA regional office in the downtown LA.</p>
<p>I want to major in biz econ or econ, but im not that great at math...i have to apply myself greatly to understand basic concepts. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Is there some form of fraternity or some type club that I should join if I am interested in pursuing a career as a investment banker or just anything business related?</p>
<p>business fraternities are not pre-requisites to a successful i-banking career, but they have their benefits (others interested in business, a lot of advice/tips, networking). delta sigma pi and alpha kappa psi are the two business frats at UCLA. i believe there is a club called the undergraduate investment society at ucla also. another resource i suggest you check out is your econ department counselor... he/she will have a ton of info or resources, and perhaps also check out the career center to see if they have anything they can get you started with.</p>
<p>sigh this post made me REALLY interested in Bizecon now...as an accepted EEmajor myself, how hard wud it be to get into CLS, pre-bizecon?</p>
<p>daraverla..how is the recruitment for ibanking firms coming out from ucla? do the top i banks do campus interviews there? thanks a lot</p>
<p>"daraverla..how is the recruitment for ibanking firms coming out from ucla? do the top i banks do campus interviews there? thanks a lot"</p>
<p>Let me put it this way. Every ibanking firm that has a regional office in LA (and about 99% of the firms do have an office in LA) come to UCLA for campus interview.</p>
<p>The firms that are looking for newly analysts in the LA area target UCLA students.</p>
<p>Thus, if you want to work in LA, UCLA is the place to be.</p>
<p>"sigh this post made me REALLY interested in Bizecon now...as an accepted EEmajor myself, how hard wud it be to get into CLS, pre-bizecon?"</p>
<p>I advise you to change your major from EE to pre Biz Econ sometime in your first year (you can do so as long as you have 3.0 GPA), and take the courses as instructed by the Biz Econ. Getting into Biz Econ should be in most cases easier than maintaing 3.0 GPA in EE major in my personal opinion.</p>
<p>"I want to major in biz econ or econ, but im not that great at math...i have to apply myself greatly to understand basic concepts. Any suggestions?"</p>
<p>Mastering econ really doesnt demand a great deal of knowledge of math. Most of the stuff in econ is basic arithmetic, and in some cases only basic calculus (deriviatives, but not intergration).</p>
<p>It's all about understanding graphs, though.</p>
<p>DaRaverLA, does the bizecon major have a limit to the number of students it can accept? Or does it accept any student who meets the requirements?</p>
<p>For example, Haas' UG biz ad program accepts only about 700 applicants a year. Cal's econ major, however, accepts anyone who is qualified (as far as i know).</p>
<p>Yeah I have a question too... I was admitted for Pre-Biz Econ so then my junior year do I officially become a BizEcon major then? Also, how high does ones GPA have to be to apply from undeclared to the BizEcon major?</p>
<p>abc, I think the minimum GPA for the bizecon program is 3.3</p>
<p>you can check though at their website</p>
<p>I dont think UCLA has a quota for the maximum number of students it takes for the Biz Econ major. But I am not sure.</p>
<p>hi</p>
<p>1) you mentioned most MBA programs require knoledge of calculus. does this mean only integral and derivative calc, or calc all the way down to multivariable?</p>
<p>i heard that some MBA programs dont entail much math at all. do these programs still require you to take accounting and calculus courses while in undergraduate school?</p>
<p>so if i want to get into an MBA program later on i must take accounting courses in undergrad?</p>
<p>2) why on earth did you list only USC, UCB, UCLA universities? are these the only west coast schools that ibank firms hire from?
what if i went to UCSB or UCD and maintained a high gpa there? would i still be able to get into i-banking?</p>
<p>3) how can i get a summer internship at (any) financial corperation? my college does not have a career center because its a community college lol. i tried searching on monster.com to no avail.</p>
<p>i got an internship offer to work as a salesman in a kitchenware company's marketing department. lol. if i do this over the summer, would it be considered valueable work experience to i-banks? (assuming i cant find a better summer internship)</p>
<p>can somebody help me find a summer internship at a financial corperation. i live near south-west san jose.</p>
<p>1) you mentioned most MBA programs require knoledge of calculus. does this mean only integral and derivative calc, or calc all the way down to multivariable?</p>
<p>Some schools like U of Michigan Ross School of Business EXPLICITLY requires each candidate to take the basic calculus (not the multivariable, although taking the course would greatly help your admission cause). However, some schools want only a high enough score on the Math Section of GMAT (over 80 percentile, minimum).</p>
<p>But the general consensus of the MBA admission community is that you DO need to have finished the basic Calculus course prior to entering MBA. Furthermore, having a string of calculus courses will dramatically improve your chances of "clearing" the academic aspect of admission requirement. (albeit the fact that clearning the academic requirement is only the very first step.)</p>
<p>2) why on earth did you list only USC, UCB, UCLA universities? are these the only west coast schools that ibank firms hire from?
what if i went to UCSB or UCD and maintained a high gpa there? would i still be able to get into i-banking?</p>
<p>I listred only USC, UCB, and UCLA because these are known as "core schools", the schools that I Banks regularly go to recruit students from on "open campus interview."</p>
<p>Meeting the representative from I Banks on the open campus interview days on your own campus is by far the most effective and most efficient way to land the premier job in the I Banking sector.</p>
<p>Granted, there have been many, many students from other schools such as UCSD, UCSB, California State University system who have successfully landed a financial analyst job in the I Banking sector, but the general consensus is that they had worked their butts off in trying to "network" on their own.</p>
<p>You know, calling the Executive VP of LA branch, HR manager, submitting your resume to every single I Bank and following up with it, meeting a high profile former I Banker at a random bar, or joining a business club community, etc.</p>
<p>It is not imposslbe by any means, but without the benefits of meeting those elusive representative face to face on that glorious open campus interview days, you have a lot of work cut out for you, perhaps too much, I shall mention.</p>
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<p>Call every single financial company that exist in your area, and DEMAND to talk to the HR manager.</p>
<p>Try to market yourself if you do get a hold of the manager by being aggressive:</p>
<p>"I know that I am still a CC student, but given the vast array of my skills set, the trackrecord of my perseverance and accompliments to date, and the impending prospect of entering one of the finest universities in Southern California, I believe that I have what it takes to successfully contribute to your firm. After all, all you have to do is to extend that glorious opportunity to meet you in person. I guarantee you that you wouldnt be disappointed."</p>
<p>Yes, you need to be a saleperson at this point. Once you have targeted your "prey", you gotta act like an long captivity-held beast deprived of fresh kills. Otherwise,you stand no chance.</p>
<p>Any questions? :)</p>
<p>Great advice.</p>
<p>DaRaverLA ,</p>
<p>you mentioned that people who plan on going to b school should take some accounting classes.</p>
<p>im pretty sure your referring to the financial accounting series, right? which is 2 quarter length classes at all the UCs. (im pretty sure about this)</p>
<p>if i dont take these 2 classes while in undergrad i cant get into MBA programs?</p>
<p>try looking on craigslist for jobn. they usually have a lot of postings for finance in downtown san jo</p>