<p>Hi Guys</p>
<p>Just wanted some more general opinions</p>
<p>Im interested in being an investment banker or someone who works extensively in areas such as trading or personal banking</p>
<p>i currently hold offers from the University of Cambridge, as well as Wharton Business school to study my undergraduate degrees.</p>
<p>Where do you guys think i should go and why?</p>
<p>thanks so much for all the help</p>
<p>I know plenty of high up professionals that attend international business conferences at Wharton several times per year. I’m not familiar with Cambridge as much, but I do know that, accotding to the Financial Times, Wharton is #2 internationally behind London.</p>
<p>hello!</p>
<p>thanks for such a quick reply.</p>
<p>So what exactly would you reccomend for an undergrad degree?</p>
<p>Wharton has this edgy dynamic pre professional feel, cambridge has this 800 year old academic prestige</p>
<p>the decision is actually killing me</p>
<p>Did nt you have to turn in your deposit to Wharton already?</p>
<p>Are you a fullpay at both schools? </p>
<p>Wharton is recognized for business at the undergrad level. Cambridge may not be the right type of school for business despite the 800 year history but if you want to do Economics -…</p>
<p>Try cross posting in investment banking thread. There may be professionals there who can help.</p>
<p>You were not accepted into either of these schools yet. Nor will you be when the time to apply rolls around. I am 100% sure of this after reading your posts. </p>
<p>Also, lying, even if on a message board, is unattractive.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>İn terms of international recognition, Cambridge beats Wharton. But that’s only in terms if prestige. The Cambridge experience, with one to one tutorials, top notch academic environment, not to mention a beautiful setting, is incomparable to anything else in the world (except Oxford).</p>
<p>@european mom, my issue with cambridge, is that its pure pure pure economics. im not sure whether il actually enjoy the academic rigidity. as far as prestige goes, theres no denying cambridge is top of the world when it coems to this. the tutorial system from what ive read is one of its most definining features.</p>
<p>what im worried about is the course. i dont know whether or not i’ll get bored. and moreover as an int’l student, and not a uk/eu national with the current status. i’ll be hard pressed to find a job…whereas in wharton from what i hear the entire school gears itself towards job creation adn the makers of finance boys for the big investment firms like goldman sachs</p>
<p>@texaspg, thanks for the heads up, didnt think of that. As far as the deposit goes, yeah i took the hit and paid for wharton as it bought me time. but it isnt internationally binding, when i called the admin office and asked.</p>
<p>@wintergreen. I was just asking for some honest help, whether your believe me or not is not really my issue. But if i was lying for kicks and giggles my questions wouldnt be so directed. anyway, good luck with your apps, given the way u treat others on this forum looks like you’ll be flying solo</p>
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Hey buddy, there is a wonderful feature on CC called “find more posts”, I suggest you use it before you wrongly assume that somebody didn’t get into a school. You would have realized that the OP posted long ago that he/she was accepted to Wharton. So before you decide to call somebody a liar, maybe you should check your facts you liar.</p>
<p>You know that false accusations, even if it is on a message board, is “unattractive”.</p>
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I’m 100% sure that if you continue to go around falsely accusing people of being liars, you will become the boy who cries wolf and when you need somebody’s help, I guarantee that they won’t help you. So when the time to apply for you rolls around, make sure you get your facts straight. </p>
<p>Hope this helps</p>
<p>To the OP,
Depends on where you want to work really. If you want to stay in the US, I suggest you go to Wharton. Both schools have international recognition and there is no doubt that if you do well in both schools, you will have numerous offers. However, the offers will be vastly different. For one, recruiters at Cambridge will be European companies: UBS, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, etc. There might be some American companies but most of the jobs will be located in Europe. On the other hand, if you go to Wharton and do well. A lot of the employers will be US companies: GE capital, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Fannie and Freddie, etc.
So really it depends on where you want to end up working.</p>
<p>I’d personally go to Cambridge because of the greater international prestige, and it’s way more flexible in case I end up wanting to do something else.</p>
<p>First of all I would like to congratulate you on your acceptance to both universities!</p>
<p>As a rising senior undergraduate studying in the states, I felt that I would be able to help clear some of your doubts. I am very conversant with the recruiting process, especially for I-Banking. While Wharton provides you with a fair understanding of finance (or whatever other subject that you intend to pursue), Cambridge will prepare you with a thorough understanding of economics. You thus have the opportunity to outshine fellow competitors with business degrees with your focused study. Recruiters tend to really like this deep understanding over a general understanding of a subject, so you have the opportunity to become a very favorable candidate.</p>
<p>Eventually every newly recruited employee will undergo the same training. Therefore the student who has studied finance/accounting etc holds no extra advantage over the student studying economics (or any other major for that matter). It is your confidence and thorough understanding of what you’ve learned that will make you excel.</p>
<p>While Cambridge and Wharton are both internationally recognized institutions, as you must be well aware of already, Cambridge is clearly more renowned and well known. Also the other advantages of studying at Cambridge include graduating in 3 years and ofcourse paying substantially lower fees. Keep in mind however that both universities will provide amazing and unique experiences, but at the end of the day it is your choice to make.</p>
<p>I hope you make the right decision for yourself,</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>Whereas both schools are wonderful and as I am sure you have heard many times, you really cannot go wrong with this decision.</p>
<p>That being said, I would go with Cambridge. Reason being, it will provide a more versatile education as opposed to the one you would receive at Wharton. Like someone said above, everyone who goes into I banking will eventually need to go get specialized knowledge in form of an MBA, you are under no obligation to get the professional education now. Moreover, the teaching in Cambridge is world renowned so it opens up doors in other markets as well. And internationally, though Wharton is prestigious, it is no where near Cambridge. Cambridge is the only school that rivals Harvard in international prestige. I do not want to come off as a prestige whore, but contrary to popular belief, prestige gives you an edge when entering the job market. </p>
<p>If you don’t mind my asking, which college did you get into in Cambridge? If it is Trinity, this should not even be up for discussion! :D</p>
<p>My godmother runs one of the graduate schools at Cambridge and I know hers at least funnels grads directly into a l</p>
<p>(I have no idea why that posted as I was typing)</p>
<p>London firms, whereas Penn is a lot further, b</p>
<p>(I really need a new phone)</p>
<p>Both physically and mentally, from a major financial center like new york. So if you’re looking for employment, I would definitely advise you to pick Cambridge. (besides it’s a much better city for the overall undergrad experience!)</p>
<p>Just wanted to add one more thing. If you’re concerned about the recruiting process, in the U.S, the top firms will first hold their campus recruiting in HYPS (harvard, tale, princeton, standford) and then at institutions like wharton, uchicago, stern etc. Whereas in the U.K the top firms will tend to first visit Oxbridge and then other universities. </p>
<p>Also referring back to a 3 year program at Cambridge, after graduating, you have the opportunity to work for one year or so that puts you miles ahead in terms of experience and networking than you would have had otherwise graduating after 4 years. This is a valuable asset that you should definitely take advantage of/consider.</p>
<p>This is completely wrong. Have you even ever worked on Wall street ? Wharton places more kids on Wall street than any other school and has the top recruitment on the street. Firms come to Wharton first and some, like silverlake, recruit exclusively at Wharton. This entire thread is BS. If you were accepted at Wharton you would have had to reply by May1st so you’re a month too late. This thread is obviously made by Wharton haters trying to bring the school down.</p>
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<p>^ Silverlake recruits 1, maybe 2, a year out of around 650 graduating Wharton undergraduates. And I know a Whartonite who works there. He got SL through his own connections. The average Wharton undergrad with few connections has absolutely no chance of getting SL. </p>
<p>While everyone has good arguments here, a lot of posters just aren’t that aware of how elite some PE shops are in London, and how they only recruit at Cambridge, Oxford, and LSE. </p>
<p>Ultimately both schools are going to easily lead the average Cambridge undergrad/Whartonite to BB IB. If you’re interested in starting your career in London or HK, go to Cambridge. If you’re interested in NYC, go to Wharton.</p>
<p>Another thing people haven’t mentioned here is just how difficult it has become for foreign nationals to work in the United States. I suggest you search some threads around CC to understand the current work visa situation.</p>
<p>Come to think of it, the OP says he was accepted by UPenn early decision… doesn’t that mean he’s bound? o___o</p>
<p>Not if he is not going to school in US.</p>