<p>I know UCLA does not have Business major, but they have what's called Business Economics (it's basically an econ degree with some accounting courses).</p>
<p>Would BB Ibanks consider UCLA as one of the target schools?</p>
<p>mynameisashton,</p>
<p>Refer to my answer on the first thread you created on this subject.</p>
<p>I know someone doing i-banking, and guess where they went? UCLA. He even majored in poli sci.</p>
<p>If you work toward that goal, you'll do fine. Stop worrying about something that's almost half a decade off.</p>
<p>I think it's more of a semi-target.</p>
<p>Even if that's the case, what difference does it make?</p>
<p>You're at UCLA, and you have to make do with what you have. So now you have, more or less, a few options you can pursue:</p>
<ol>
<li> Make the best of what you have and work your tail off.<br></li>
<li> Transfer.</li>
<li> Despair, sink into a pit of angst, and let the opportunities pass you by.</li>
<li> Change career goals.</li>
<li> Get a graduate degree and go into i-banking after a few years.</li>
</ol>
<p>That's about it. Choose whichever one you like the most.</p>
<p>I think the point of his question was to gauge whether or not going through the transfer process would be worth it. To the OP, if you put the work in and do a lot of networking, you can get in to i-banking. UCLA is definitely not going to kill your chances.</p>
<p>jnpn,</p>
<p>I just wanted to cover all the bases. :)</p>
<p>UCLA is not in New York, but considering that it is the largest, most prestigious school (sorry, USC) in the second largest city in the country, I don't think you are going to be hurt too much by graduating from UCLA versus Wharton/NYU.</p>
<p>Be aware that the school does not focus in bring IB recruiters on campus, though.</p>
<p>The geographic location of the school you attend has nothing to do with actually landing the job. And Wharton is in Philly, not New York.</p>
<p>I do think there's a huge difference btwn a WHARTON grad and a UCLA grad. So, when it comes to getting the job, I would think that Wharton grads are going to have the upper hand.</p>
<p>it is a semi-target along with usc. solid recruiting from pretty much all the banks especially for the west coast offices. and geography matters a lot actually</p>
<p>Obviously there is going to be a large chunk that come from schools in the northeast because IB's tend to recruit heavily from the most prestigious schools -- of which, the ivies represent a large portion. I think it's more of a correlation but not causation type scenario.</p>
<p>in this case, geography does matter; this is a UCLA thread. most of the recruiting for west coast schools like UCB, USC, UCLA etc are for the west coast offices. That list of shcools doesn't specifiy which offices the analysts are going to. Schools like SMU, Texas, and Rice may be recruited but most of the positions are for the Houston office. Same thing for Indiana and WUSTL, they will be placed in the midwest offices.</p>
<p>Geography plays a huge part in where you get placed. Unless you go to a truly superior school like Stanford or an ivy league, it will be harder to get placed in an office where your school isn't near. Geography may not be a factor in terms of overall recruiting, but it does play large part in what office you work in. Notice my earlier post where I was talking about office location not overall recruitment</p>
<p>Ah I thought you were saying geography will affect your overall ability to get in the industry. Yeah, I agree it can affect opportunities in terms of the location of your office.</p>
<p>Thank you justdrop for explaining what I meant--which seems to have been misunderstood originally.</p>
<p>Oh, and I apologize about the USC comment--because let's be blunt--USC has the best undergraduate (graduate is open for debate) business school in southern California (let's not get started on who is best in the state for undergraduate business between Haas and Marshall--the last time that thread was started it was about 30 pages long at the end).</p>
<p>aquamarinee, yes I agree that being a Wharton grad versus a UCLA grad is a major difference--especially at the undergrade level considering UCLA has no undergraduate business school. I have written extensively on CC about how sad it is that there are only two undergraduate business schools at the UCs (Berkeley and Riverside)--and how this encourages people (like my son and other friends of his) to go out of state for a business education if they can't afford (or don't have the grades) to get into USC and/or UC Berkeley. (And even if you get into Berkeley, you still have to qualify for the business school--only 59% did.</p>
<p>P.S. And did you look at the Haas schools admission statistics for transfer students last year? The average GPA of those accepted was a 3.91 from college work, with only 90 offers made out of 1136 applications received (less than an 8% acceptance rate). So, if someone plans to go to a different college for two years and then apply for the business program, good luck.</p>
<p>For NYC BB banks, and MM banks, its definetly not a target. There's only a couple, and I mean a couple, of state public schools that are targets. For LA/SF banking, its definetly up there, I'd say a target. </p>
<p>Why not USC? USC still isn't a target for NYC, but you'll have more connections, I'd assume, from the Old Boys Club. USC Alum is notorious for taking care of its fresh grads.</p>
<p>USC's network is also excellent at providing both overseas programs/global experiences and also with internship opportunities. Probably the most "networked" of all the schools with the only possible exceptions being NYU and Wharton.</p>
<p>Have you guys personally experienced or seen the USC network? An interview is not that hard to obtain (which is what connections help with). Once at the interview, it is up to the candidate to do really well and get hired.</p>
<p>I think half the people that apply to transfer to haas don't meet admission requirements and get automatically rejected</p>
<p>"An interview is not that hard to obtain"</p>
<p>Not true if you go to USC, UCLA, or any other school not named Harvard, Wharton or Yale. An interview is relatively difficult to get unless you go to a target school (and by target, i mean HYPWSM) and have a >=3.3.</p>
<p>HYPWSM are definitely not the only targets</p>