blossom:
UCB- evidence and/or examples?
Not sure what an elite-admission major is at a not so elite admission college- but there is a difference between a company sending a team to “recruit” at a college, vs. screening out students anywhere else.
<p>I’ll be interning at a bulge-bracket investment bank this summer (junior), so I can shed some light on this:</p>
<p>Major:
Everyone views Econ majors as Haas rejects. Unfair, but largely true. When the banks are reviewing resumes for internships, they look at your major first, and that’s what they’ll think. Other common majors are Stats, some sort of engineering, Applied Math. All of those are “technical” and look good, (more math/CS = better), but Haas is fine. All the kids going to Goldman this summer are Haas majors, IIRC.</p>
<p>Clubs:
Delta Sigma Pi, Alpha Kappa Psi, and Beta Alpha Psi are the three business (co-ed) fraternities on campus. You won’t learn anything there, but all the kids in there are interested in doing banking, and most, if not all the Berkeley kids who DO get banking jobs were involved in those fraternities, so you can network with current alums bankers pretty easily. If you don’t care about anything except getting a banking job, these would be the guys t…
The context is that the business major (“Haas”) is a competitive admission major that students apply to in their second year, and the economics major is less difficult to get into.