<p>Hi,
I am a Junior at Georgia Tech, Atlanta. My GPA is a 3.2 and since I have just 2 semesters left, I don't think I can improve it too much.
I am a Biomedical Engineering major and also doing a certificate in Economics. I have been in leadership positions and have done internships in biomedical engineering.
I want to switch to consulting or I Banking and later do an MBA. I don't know what I need to do to switch to get into consulting. Most firms don't consider me since I have done too much work in my engineering major and have no clue about consulting.
My goal is to do an MBA later and get into I Banking. I was wondering if work experience in biomedical engineering would be useful in making to a good B -school or if I need to switch to some kind of management job. If I need to switch, please let me know how to do it.</p>
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<p>I guess the first question would be: </p>
<p>Why do you want to go to IBanking and get an MBA?</p>
<p>I went to engineering by default and didn't know much about consulting or I Banking. Now I seem to have got interested in consulting and investing. I think I should be a good fit for consulting firms.</p>
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Most firms don't consider me since I have done too much work in my engineering major and have no clue about consulting.
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<p>I don't think "no clue about consulting" is enough information for you to choose a career path catered towards it. Find books, forums, newspapers that talk about the stuff they do. Through this you will both find out if you truly want to do this, and what they do - which will help you get the job. </p>
<p>These kinds of firms like engineers because of their analytical skills and trainability. Just make sure you know what they do, and some extra.</p>
<p>hey, i have read books and posts about consulting. I was just wondering what were my chances at getting into a good b-school and how should I apply to a consulting firm to get a job.</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>*Bump, I would also like to know.</p>
<p>I'm going to be attending Columbia University next year for either Biomedical Engineering or Chemical Engineering and have been going back and forth about what I want to do post-undergrad.</p>
<p>I have been thinking about Medical School, Graduate School in Genetics to go onto Research in genetics, or Business School. Business caught my interest and i'm wondering what are my options since I definitely want to get an undergraduate degree in Engineering.</p>
<p>*Bump, I also like to know more about this option.</p>
<p>I am attending Cornell Engineering in the fall.</p>
<p>Plenty of people with engineering undergraduate degrees are recruited into investment banking and consulting right out of school. I suppose that it depends on who recruits on campus at your school and how driven you are to find opportunities. You need to have excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills for jobs in either of these fields (a concern many employers have with engineers -- you will have to overcome these assumptions).</p>
<p>After working for a few years, many people with engineering degrees go on to get their MBAs.</p>
<p>A question I really want to know is: what kind of internship/work experience should an engineer have? Should he/she try to look for consulting/banking jobs or just engineering jobs if he wants to work in investment banking?</p>
<p>How hard would it be for a history major to get into a top business school?</p>
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A question I really want to know is: what kind of internship/work experience should an engineer have? Should he/she try to look for consulting/banking jobs or just engineering jobs if he wants to work in investment banking?
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Why are you majoring in engineering when you really want to work in investment banking? What do you really like to do? Investment banking jobs are super competitive to get, therefore you should really concentrate in engineering if that is what you want to do.
Investment banks may hire engineering majors because they have experience in engineering, not business internship; they can hire business majors for that.</p>
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Why are you majoring in engineering when you really want to work in investment banking?
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<p>Well, I would say that a significant fraction of MIT engineering students end up going to banking. </p>
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How hard would it be for a history major to get into a top business school?
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<p>It's really all about work experience. If you can parlay that history major into a job that will give you solid work experience, then you're golden.</p>
<p>I know a guy who was a History major and then became a star salesman for a technology company. It should be said that he is a tall, handsome, and extremely smooth and charismatic guy. His strong sales success got him into a number of top B-schools.</p>
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Well, I would say that a significant fraction of MIT engineering students end up going to banking
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Yea, you are talking about MIT engineering students. But the poster is asking about himself. I assume he is not a MIT student. Most banks will only hire engineering students from TOP schools, and I don't want to mislead him.
Do you have any data supporting "significant fraction" of MIT engineering students ending up in I banking? I would guess that many of MIT engineering students hired by banks did not aim for investment banking at the outset. They have to be prepared to do engineering if not hired by banks.</p>
<p>I see the poster will be at Cornell. Many banks go to Cornell for recruitment so just try to get summer jobs through the university's recruitment office.</p>
<p>"It's really all about work experience. If you can parlay that history major into a job that will give you solid work experience, then you're golden."</p>
<p>wait so all you need to get into a top business school is prove that you can sell stuff/make money? the under grad doesn't matter that much if you can prove this point?</p>
<p>let's say the dude who invented ebay barely got through a third tier university with horrendous grades. now let's say he goes and invents ebay afterwards and gets rich. will the ebay guy get admitted into top business schools?</p>
<p>quite possibly, considering the fact that Ebay is now some billion dollar company</p>
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Why are you majoring in engineering when you really want to work in investment banking? What do you really like to do? Investment banking jobs are super competitive to get, therefore you should really concentrate in engineering if that is what you want to do.
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<p>I have nothing against engineering; in fact, I think it's a great career and that's why I am going to major in that. But after I graduate, if I can have the opportunity to work as an investment banker and earn more money, why should I say no? If I don't make it as a Investment banker, I will still be happy to work as an engineer. I just want to learn more about my options, that's all.</p>
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Yea, you are talking about MIT engineering students. But the poster is asking about himself. I assume he is not a MIT student. Most banks will only hire engineering students from TOP schools, and I don't want to mislead him.
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<p>Yeah I am going to Cornell in the fall. Certainly, it's not HYPSM, and I am not going to argue that it is. However, I think I still have a decent chance at becoming an investment banker, and I just wanted to know how to maximize my chances.</p>
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Do you have any data supporting "significant fraction" of MIT engineering students ending up in I banking? I would guess that many of MIT engineering students hired by banks did not aim for investment banking at the outset. They have to be prepared to do engineering if not hired by banks.
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<p>All you have to do is look at the MIT career reports. </p>
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wait so all you need to get into a top business school is prove that you can sell stuff/make money? the under grad doesn't matter that much if you can prove this point?
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<p>Well, it's not so much about selling stuff and making money. But in general, if you have strong work experience, then that trumps whatever undergrad you had. </p>
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let's say the dude who invented ebay barely got through a third tier university with horrendous grades. now let's say he goes and invents ebay afterwards and gets rich. will the ebay guy get admitted into top business schools?
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<p>Absolutely, but in your case, if you've founded Ebay, you probably don't need or want B-school. If you're already rich, then what do you care about B-school? </p>
<p>Put another way, I have access to the classcards at Harvard Business School. I see a bunch of current HBS students who came from no-name undergrad programs, i.e. Indiana State (not Indiana University, but Indiana State), Kettering University, Utah State University, University of North Texas, San Diego State, etc. Granted, there are not a lot of these people, but they are there. Heck, I had never even heard of places like Utah State or the University of North Texas before I had perused the HBA classcards.</p>
<p>Sakky, the URL you posted doesn't show any information about MIT engineering students going to I Banking. The numbers lump all graduates together and they include 263 MBA students.For all we know, those going to I Banking could ALL be MBA students.</p>
<p>cbreeeze, refer to pages 6 & 7 of the PDF document. It clearly has "2005 Undergraduate Employers by Department"...</p>