<p>Hello everybody, I am planning to attend UC Irvine this fall with a major in Economics and perhaps a minor in Management or Accounting. It appears to me (reading the threads) that most investment banking jobs are in areas such as New York... and people who land these careers are graduates of top-tier schools (i.e. NYU, Columbia) Would coming from a school such as UC Irvine make it difficult for me to enter the investment banking field? Thank you.</p>
<p>I'm not going to lie to you - it would be easier if you were going to a place like Stanford or Harvard. </p>
<p>But you gotta play with the cards you were dealt, not the cards you wish you were dealt. You can still get to IB, the road will just be more difficult. So you will have to reach for opportunities whenever you can find them. Network with as many people as possible. Get to know the industry as much as you can. Go look for a summer job at a bank, even for no pay if that's what it takes.</p>
<p>Realize that these jobs are still hard to get if you go to Harvard or Stanford. The jobs go to exceptional students there and the exceptionally connected. Nothing is impossible though.</p>
<p>try to transfer to UC Berkeley, where you will have a better chance.</p>
<p>and really, don't emphasize on the business school rankings....it fluctuates every year. what you should look at is the list of schools that are on ibanks' calendars.....UCB is one of them, stanford is one of them, UCLA sometimes is one of them.</p>
<p>however, you still have a chance without transferring out, you can ace in your university and get a super high GPA and super connections.....</p>