<p>How far can I get with a double major in Economics and Math from UCLA?</p>
<p>I'm not yet at the school, nor have I yet applied, but I'm trying to have the most options out of college as possible.</p>
<p>I'd ask this in the investment banking forum, but no one there seems to answer any questions of mine.</p>
<p>Where do you want to work? Wall Street? Or in California?</p>
<p>UCLA is probably not going to bring you onto Wall Street. Neither is USC. There is a bigger chance at Berkeley but its not too big still. </p>
<p>If you want to work on Wall Street, your best bet will be an Eastern university. Michigan’s Ross, Virginia’s McIntyre, and MYU’s Stern are all excellent business schools with admissions standards not too far out of reach for the average UCLA applicant. </p>
<p>If your ambitions is simply West Coast IB, UCLA is enough. Just change your major to Business Economics. It is more prestigious.</p>
<p>EDIT: Search through your posts, I found your other thread. Public universities are indeed still competitive for IB. UCLA doesn’t have an undergraduate business degree and the main problem with Haas is the geography. Most Haas students end up staying in California.</p>
<p>East Coast publics are good, though. Do note, however, that most of these publics do not give good financial aid to OOS students. The only reason I recommended them was because they were easy to get into. You might as well just go to Stern if you’re OOS.</p>
<p>An alternative to all of this is that you could get a MBA at a east coast school. If this is the case, you don’t have to worry about your undergrad university.</p>
<p>My main issue with going to an Ivy isn’t necessarily that I wouldn’t get in, but would be affording it.</p>
<p>My parents outright refuse to pay for an Ivy or any private school. </p>
<p>Do you have any idea about IB on the west coast? I haven’t looked much into anything other than Wall Street type stuffs.</p>
<p>Is there much of an opening from things like UCLA to foreign areas?</p>
<p>My dream job is Barclays or Goldman Sachs. I just am unsure if I can get there from something like UCLA.</p>
<p>Would a Econ/Math double major be difficult at UCLA?</p>
<p>Note: I’ll be coming in with one year finished (IB program).</p>
<p>Why do a Math/Econ double major when you can be a Math/Econ Major? And yeah, if you come in with intro econ and Calculus credit, it does make the major easier to complete on time.</p>
<p>There’s a math/econ major? Is it business economics?</p>
<p>I’m trying to find out what UCLA undergrads matriculated into investment banking-wise. Do you know if there’s a resource for this info?</p>
<p>There are the following majors for which you are looking at…
Econ dept.
Econ
Business Econ
Intl Econ</p>
<p>Math Dept.
Math
Math/Econ
Applied Math - Actuary</p>
<p>These are the majors that someone like you would be looking at.</p>
<p>The ones that look the best there are: Math/Econ and Business Econ.</p>
<p>How do the investment banking opportunities on the west coast compare to the east? Are the salaries comparable?</p>
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keep in mind you don’t have to depend all on your parents, take student loans, use work study, don’t limit yourself because of 4 years of tuition. Ivys will be a lot more beneficial than UCs in the long run, simply the prestige and networking out of an Ivy can’t be matched by UCLA or the “trojan family”</p>
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<p>That’s not true at all. I’m working one of the most competitive jobs in government right now, and of the dozen or so people on my team, 2 attended Ivy League institutions (including grad school), and 9 went to public universities. Others went to private universities, two of which I had never before heard of.</p>
<p>It’s what you do at your chosen university, and the initiative you are willing to take there, that will get you far.</p>
<p>Also, I interviewed with some major East Coast-based consulting firms a year or so ago, and they never mentioned anything about me not attending an Ivy; just said they were impressed with my academic record.</p>
<p>true… i have a 3.4 gpa and i am a senior…just got an offer to work an investment banking job at goldman sachs…go figure</p>
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<p>obviously his school record will be important, but if you have 2 people with the same GPA, similar internship experience, one is from harvard and one is from U$c would you rather take the trojan?</p>
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Which part of the office, though? Even UF students get to work in the back. -.-</p>
<p>(EDIT: I’m not saying UCLA students don’t ever work front office. It just doesn’t happen that often relative to some other universities.)</p>
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<p>Haha of course not- but only because I’m biased toward UCLA, and would never hire a Trojan!</p>
<p>I have two friends from top Ivies who applied for the same position with said consulting firms, and were not offered interviews- I got to the third round before withdrawing to take another position.</p>
<p>I also beat out a Stanford PhD student for my current position. So I guess you might want to rethink your hiring methods- because a lot of top firms/agencies would disagree.</p>
<p>i Got the top job bro…200K base…300K bonuses</p>