<p>I would recommend UCI over Cal Poly. UCI is an amazing campus full of wonderful people. Cal Poly, however, looks great on the outside (the town, the campus, the beach), buts its full of really bad people, and some pretty terrible professors.</p>
<p>UCI is far superior to Cal Poly when it comes to business adminsitration. I have yet to meet a UCI graduate who has failed in his/her attempt to find a job right out of school. The big 4 DO look at cal poly, but recruit very few from them (despite what they like to claim).</p>
<p>Give UCI a chance and check it out. You will not be sorry :D</p>
<p>He is going around all the boards making random negative comments about Cal Poly for kicks.</p>
<p>He said in his other posts that he knows UCI b-school undergraduates all find jobs now. This definitely can be true, that is when they finally graduate their first batch of graduates in the future, given their b-school just started up not long ago.</p>
<p>“The big 4 DO look at cal poly, but recruit very few from them (despite what they like to claim)”</p>
<p>Well fact of matter is the Big 4 are very selective and only hire the top students at any campus. I recruited for PW and can say truthfully that the firm considered cal poly accounting majors among the best in CA. And the ones I personally recruited performed well for the firm.</p>
<p>Don’t mean to contradict you, but I don’t really think that’s true. Pretty much any articulate student with a 3.5gpa who had a decent internship can get a job from the big 4- that’s what i’ve seen at least.</p>
<p>It’s even easier if you’re from a really prestigious school like Harvard or something. Like, you can have a 3.2 and no internship experience and still get an entry level job.</p>
<p>Interesting observation. So you think just about any accounting graduate can get a job with the Big 4? I don’t have the stats but I’d bet the total entry level hires for audit and tax of the Big 4 represents a miniscule percentage of the total accounting graduates each year.</p>
<p>Maybe you are saying that most accounting graduates earn a 3.5 gpa and have meaningful internship experience?</p>
<p>No, I don’t think merely majoring in accounting will get you a job. However, I don’t think having a 3.5 gpa and internship makes you a top student by any means- it makes you pretty good.</p>
<p>There are many top students who have a ~4.0 gpa, published research with a distinguished professor, multiple internships with very reputable companies, strong connections with associates in top firms, etc.</p>
<p>However, since you have actually recruited for PW, i will have to defer to you. I’m just a student.</p>
<p>Thunderhorse, how is Cal, SJSU and Santa Clara (the schools in bay area) doing comparing with Cal Poly in term of big 4 recruitment? (Sorry asking here as I understand it’s the UCI board, but since you brought up Cal Poly recruitment)</p>
<p>So I’m a few years removed from the recruiting thing and I was in SoCal area so we did not get opportunity to directly recruit at Cal, SJSD and Santa Clara. But I do recall the firm considered Cal, Cal Poly and Santa Clara as strong sources of quality candidates. Sorry, don’t have any insight on SJSU.</p>
<p>It seems you imply/confirm what has been circulated around in the business board that big-4 mainly recruit from the campus near their office. SoCal office recuit from SoCal campus and NCal office recruit from NoCal campus. Am I correct?</p>
<p>Unless things have changed SoCal campus -> primary responsibility of SoCal office. If say a candidate from SoCal university wanted job in SF or (name a city) the local recruiter would interview and refer candidate to the other office.</p>
<p>No problem. Good luck with your accounting career. All of the bigs are fantastic firms, particularly if you are interested in international opportunities after you establish yourself in the firm.</p>
<p>Went to Discover UCI with D and have a postive impression with the business major students. </p>
<p>Most of the students are having internships during their school year. One of the student is going to graduate in 3 years because he had a lot of AP credits in high school. </p>
<p>The school intends to keep the enrollment small. May be they want to maintain the quality. They mentioned the department is not affected by budget cut as much and they are still hiring faculty.</p>
<p>Both UCI and CP are good schools. One is new, another is established. Its up to D which one she likes now.</p>
<p>Thanks for asking and glad you had a wonderful time.</p>
<p>D went to France with her high school for Spring Break, and missed the open house for both UCI and Cal Poly.</p>
<p>She is leaning toward UCI now. She found out most of the business students there are getting internships in their junior and sophomore years. Orange county seems to offer more internship opportunities especially during school year. And the study abroad program in UC is more established than CP. She will make the final decision when she comes back from France.</p>
<p>What a hard decision but she is fortunate to have a chance.</p>
<p>The first class(which was overenrolled) is graduating this year.
I just came from an orientation targeted towards who want join the major or UCI’s minor programs. This was the premise “we’re used to having 10 open slots, this year we have 70”</p>
<p>While the higher number of slots and subsequent marketing of the program(there had been little or none) would likely drive up the number of applications, it wouldn’t be unrealistic to see a 30-60% acceptance rate this year(for internal transfers from within UCI)</p>