<p>HPM....Merrill LYNCH has a reason to reject you now. You can't even spell their name....although I'm sure a lot of kids get rejected from Deutsche Bank because they can't spell that either. LOL :D</p>
<p>Just kidding.</p>
<p>Well probably 95% of people on here wanting to do IB will get rejected from every company they apply to anyways, so who minds stuff like spelling.</p>
<p>=D</p>
<p>^No joke. 95% probably won't even apply since they won't make it into a target school or a good one in general.</p>
<p>You don't need to be in a target school to get an IB job, but if your school is below the top100 schools USNews, you have tons and tons of work to do. Heck if your in a school below top50 US New you have tons of work to do.</p>
<p>UBS LA
HLHZ
MS
ML
CSFB
Lehman
Goldman</p>
<p>Do you mean top 100 in business schools or national universities?</p>
<p>You don't need to be at Wharton to have a good chance. Wharton only gets you the interview. During the first round interview, the dude from Wharton is on the same footing as the dude from SUNY Stony Brook.</p>
<p>Most of the people here on this board can and will become investment bankers if they want to, just not with Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley.</p>
<p>Is the salary in Hedge Fund close to the one in IB? I know the hours must be looser!!!</p>
<p>Yeah I have heard HF and IB salaries are comparable, but HF jobs are even harder to come by then IB jobs.</p>
<p>Hedge Fund guys have it so much easier. These kids live in NYC and commute out to Fairfield County every morning. Last trains leave at around 7pm so they all get to leave at 7. It is nice living, of course you need to be sick at math, super smart, super balsy, and very charismatic.</p>
<p>Another thing about HF=more risk, higher pay (relatively).</p>