<p>People here always talk about the difficulty of getting into IB at a BB if one doesn't go to a target school or know someone or what have you. When people say that though, are they referring to breaking into a specific area, ie the Northeast or other regions? Or is it getting into a company at all.</p>
<p>What brought this to my attention was when I was browsing a thread around this forum, I noticed someone said that Haas is a good target for West Coast banks. But my question is why does it matter the region of the bank. Do all offices of a company not do the same thing just with a different clientele?</p>
<p>Breaking into a specific office is quite different than breaking into a firm in general. Regional offices often recruit from a number of local schools. Part of the reason is that students from local schools tend to be more willing to stay in the area, and local schools make an effort to establish and maintain relationships with local offices. And many regional offices recruit separately from the rest of the bank, so one thing they specifically look for is a person’s willingness to live in the area.</p>
<p>When people mention “target schools”, they generally mean targets for every region, i.e. HYPSM + Wharton. There are also “regional targets”, like Northwestern for Chicago, Berkeley for SF, UCLA for LA, etc.</p>
<p>Northwestern isn’t a regional target.
National targets are: Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, Yale, MIT, Duke, Cornell, Northwestern, UCB, UMich, etc.
Regional targets are schools like Boston College, Texas, etc.</p>
<p>Does the same thing apply to an international office? </p>
<p>The reason I ask is because I have been studying foreign languages the past few years so that I could work abroad. Would you say they are more inclined to higher locals or someone form the US who meets the qualifications needed to work in an international office.</p>