<p>Since there is no designated pre-business path at schools without undergrad business programs, would being an english major be a plausible option (along with a finance/business minor)? I am considering majoring in economics too, but I don't know enough about it so am not sure if I'd like it or not, so with that in mind, would majoring in english be a legitimate alternative?</p>
<p>If I did this at a top 10 school and had a high GPA, would recruiters for highly competitive jobs (such as i-banking or others Wall Street jobs) respect this, or consider it a joke and not take me seriously? Thanks!</p>
<p>Nice link, nice quoting of history majors rather than OP’s question of English majors, and nice use of an Ivy Leaguer to generalize for all schools.</p>
<p>Zhanger doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Most IB target schools don’t have a school of business. Therefore, most Bulge Bracket IB people don’t have a Finance degree. Odds are, if you got to a school that offers a finance degree, it’s a lower-end target or semi-target. And yes, there are several exceptions so please don’t post one and tell me I’m wrong.</p>
<p>I’d like to see your claim that most IB target schools don’t have a school of business backed up with a link. If your reading comprehension was better, you would have noticed I said finance/econ grads anyway. Are you also claiming most don’t have an economics department?</p>
<p>Only two Ivy league schools have undergraduate Business schools (6)
Northwestern, UChicago<em>, Stanford</em>, Duke, Williams, Amherst and Vandy have no ug bschool (7)
=13</p>
<p>Compare that to those with Bschool: NYU, Michigan, Cornell, Penn, MIT, Notre Dame<em>, Georgetown, UVa, CMU, and Cal</em> = 10
13>10</p>
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<li>You want the data go to Dartmouth’s history department’s website</li>
<li>History and English are both soft liberal arts and therefore comparable </li>
<li><p>He asked about a top 10 school if you haven’t noticed, 6 of them are in the Ivy League athletic conference.
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<li><p>Goldman Sachs’ former president was an English major at Dartmouth </p></li>
<li><p>Timothy Geithner was an Asian Studies major at Dartmouth </p></li>
<li><p>Mitt Romney was an English major at BYU</p></li>
<li><p>Morgan Stanley was an Art History major</p></li>
<li><p>Since you want everyone to link everything; where is the data to back up your claims of it being a “joke”</p></li>
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<p>Don’t overrate the little finance curriculum at the undergrad level. For example, it only takes an afternoon for a smart English major to master that little thing called TVM, at least the one covered in typical undergrad business. There’s no steep learning curve. Many IB associates spend very <em>little</em> time messing with financial modeling anyway, if any.</p>