Schools for Investment Banking? UNC?

<p>I will be attending UNC Chapel Hill starting fall 2013 as a business major (finance). My ultimate goal is a job in Investment Banking or Hedge Funds
I am planning on doing one of the following things:</p>

<p>Option 1: Stay here graduate in three years then attend an IVY League or UCLA/Berkeley, UVA, NYU, Duke or something like that for an MBA. Then end up with a job</p>

<p>Option 2: transfer to one of the schools I just listed then graduate in 4 years from there. Then end up with a job without an MBA (go get an MBA later on).</p>

<p>Option 3: Simply stay here for four years then get recruited. (Is UNC even a target school for Investment Banking/Hedge Funds?)</p>

<p>Basically option will most likely land me a Job in IB or Hedge Funds the fastest?</p>

<p>Usually upper-tier MBA programs require that an applicant have work experience under their belt.</p>

<p>This might put a damper on your first plan.</p>

<p>So I’ve heard I’m sure I can find one or two programs that would be otherwise (I still have about 3-4 years to go)…by the way everyone the answer decides whether I take it easy in college (party once or twice a month) or work my rear off studying for a 3.8<GPA and 700<GMAT score.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>Bump…</p>

<p>UNC is a solid semi-target, so transferring certainly isn’t essential to landing an IB gig. However, if you can transfer into Duke or school of that caliber, you should do it.</p>

<p>Do you think I should retake the SAT to get higher? (I’ve taken it 3 times already). Would it make a difference to any schools? Or should I just work my *** off for a 4.0 - ish GPA? </p>

<p>And anyone know the 2012 transfer acceptance rates/stats to the good B-Schools? Ross, UVA, Duke, etc.?</p>

<p>My current score is an 1860 (FYI: I’m only 16 years old); I’m graduating early and didn’t know this until half way through September. This is why I’m regretting my college decisions already - didn’t have enough time research everything in the first place.</p>

<p>bump…anyone with some experience in this stuff? Common!</p>

<p>Bump…please people!</p>

<p>BUmp…</p>

<p>Bumppppppppppppp</p>

<p>I’d go with Option 2. Transfer would be your best bet if you can get into one of those schools (UVA, NYU, Duke, maybe Berkeley; no point in transferring to UCLA).</p>

<p>Option 1 won’t work because any good MBA program (those that IBs typically recruit from) will absolutely require work experience.</p>

<p>Re. Option 3: Not a target school but I’m sure there are still kids there who get into IB through networking and such. I would try to talk to some UNC alums in banking if possible.</p>

<p>Contrary to what astonmartinDBS says, you can still transfer to UCLA if you want to do banking. UCLA is still very much a target school for bulge brackets. In fact, UCLA is becoming more relevant. East coast firms do not recruit heavily on the west coast, including Cal and Stanford, not because west coast schools are worse than east coast schools but rather a logistical reason; why fly someone in from California when you can just get someone to come in themselves from the tri-state area?</p>

<p>Basically what I’m saying is that UCLA, Cal and Stanford are still very relevant in banking, despite what most people say and think.</p>

<p>Looks like it’s Option 3. Transfer: Any good schools with high transfer acceptance rates that you’ll know about. I think this may be a dumb question but how’s the relationship between Carey School of Business (Johns Hopkins) and wall st.? (even though it’s brand new).</p>

<p>UCLA, Berkeley non-Haas, and UVA non-McIntire will not improve your chances at IB, in fact, would make it harder for you to get IB than staying put in the business school at UNC. The external transfer into Haas/McIntire is unlikely and I wouldn’t think of transfering to those schools to take the gamble of transferring as an internal candidate a year later</p>

<p>Hopkins is poor for Wall Street not because it’s a bad school, there aren’t many alumni from the school in the industry</p>

<p>Option 4: Consider alternate career options. </p>

<p>Seriously not everyone can make it into IB.
Ask yourself exactly do you want to do IB?</p>

<p>So UCLA is a definite no. I’ll still try to apply as an external transfer to Haas or McIntire (You never know). And I guess JHU is out of question - thanks everyone.</p>