In-State Berkeley vs Wharton Undergrad

[ucbalumnus]

@TaylorDo

From the research I have done and the conversations that I have had with former investment bankers/recruiters, recruitment is mainly based off of GPA rather than your major. So by taking a hard major at Berkeley, such as math, would be shooting yourself in the foot

The older post Economics for Investment Banking? - #6 by triplectz suggests that business and math-heavy majors are favored by IB recruiting at UCB.

Perhaps this may be because business has a competitive secondary admission process, and the math-heavy majors are seen as “hard”.

Note that the linked post also mentions a 3.7+ college GPA, but it is extremely competitive beyond major and GPA (3 out of 150 applicants getting summer internships).