<p>I'm a undergraduate and concentrate on finance in business school. I want to transfer to UCLA and UCB although it's very difficult to do so.</p>
<p>Is UCI worth nothing in IB industry?</p>
<p>can anyone give some words?</p>
<p>What year are you? What have you done up until now?</p>
<p>If you have a good foundation at your university, and you really want to break in, you’ll be able to… just focus on getting good grades, getting a boutique internship between your sophomore / junior year, and network a lot.</p>
<p>If you’re a freshman and you don’t have a foundation built at your university, transferring might be worth it.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>No, UCI is definitely not good enough</p>
<p>Let’s get real here: definitely not. Unless you have some extreme connections (read: Mommy and Daddy own some big ass bank), IB is not a possibility. </p>
<p>Like nickfat said, transfer if you can. That’s the only plausible option. You can always try to reach for the stars from there, but set up some good back-ups in case you (highly likely) don’t make it.</p>
<p>nooooooooo</p>
<p>No. You’re only bet would be personal connections, transferring, or doing something else, getting an MBA, and going back after the MBA (granted that the MBA was from a top school).</p>
<p>go on wallstreetoasis, plenty of complete non-targets land IB jobs if they network hard enough. Maybe not at BB’s but you should definitely have a shot at MM/boutique firms in San Francisco</p>
<p>what about uc berkeley or ucla?</p>
<p>I’m going to UCI as well.</p>
<p>from what I gather, I probably won’t be good enough to put you at the very top unless you’ve got close to a 4.0 GPA, network very very aggressively, knock out a few internships and absolutely positively nail your interviews flawlessly. It might get you into some small regional boutiques though. That’s something I’d be fine with myself, I don’t want to be at the top, too much stress and too many new regulations post government bailout. I was considering IB for a while but am now looking more towards Corp Treasury or perhaps AM.</p>
<p>Someone correct me if I am wrong, I’m just a dumb ignorant kid.</p>
<p>also, UCB is semi target, UCLA not so much.</p>
<p>Not trying to defend my alma matter or anything, but UCLA places pretty well into all the top BB’s and their reigonal offices in LA. I personally know of 6 people who landed full-time gigs in BB after a SA stint. Supposedly there about 20 people a year picked up by BB/MM from UCLA. And Haas is the best placing school(besides Stanford) this side of U Chicago.</p>
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<p>I was just gonna say that Haas is one of the top business schools in the country and they have one of the strongest econ programs as well… JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and many other top firms recruit at UCB. Especially because San Francisco is nearby. Not as many recruit at UCLA as they do UCB.</p>