<p>Let me make this easy. Wall Street Bulge Bracket banks do not pick favorites within their list of “target schools”. They take good applicants from both M&T and Princeton (and Yale and Harvard and other places too)–your odds of success are more reliant on how well you do at school than on where you went between the two of them. </p>
<p>Unless you’re looking at some super-specific hedge fund job that only takes M&T people (they exist, but they’re few and far between), pick the place where you think that you would enjoy the next four years more–it’ll show. You’re overcomplicating this decision. You have equal odds of getting a job out of either school. </p>
<p>Feel free to PM me to talk off-line if you’d like.</p>
<p>Don’t pay too much attention to the joint degree and pick whichever school you like better. When I was in finance out of college, of the 3 Penn kids in my class, 1 was M&T and 1 Huntsman. Both had sick gpas but the HYP kids in our class had lower gpas than them. Anecdotal obviously but I don’t think M&T really gives you that much of a boost.</p>
<p>This line of logic is utterly fallacious. M&T students do not have any core requirements waved from either degree, so they spend just as much time per degree as single-degree students at other schools. Let’s be real here - a student studying engineering only is going to use his or her extra time to go out and have fun, not to study doubly as hard.</p>
<p>M&T is not necessarily a better choice than Princeton, but it does not at all result in a weaker understanding of business than single-degree Wharton students, and it does not at all result in a weaker understanding of engineering than single-degree SEAS students.</p>