<p>VTBoy, you said earlier that you are working on a degree in Managerial Economics and in another thread you said that you are a Statistics major. Are you double majoring? If so, are you considering getting an advanced degree in economics? If so, just wait and see how technichal that degree is/will be. Anyway, what exactly is (are) your majors(s)?</p>
<p>I am gettind a double major in Managerial Econ and Statistics. Right now I plan to get into actuaries, but I am also considuring graduate school in Economics. One reason I am not too keen on graduate school is if I go to graduate school in econ I am worried my statistics double major might have been for nothing. With actuaries I will be able to use both of my degrees. I am also not to keen on the pay for someone with a graduate econ degree.</p>
<p>If you went to grad school in econ your statistics degree would be anything but wasted. Good luck though.</p>
<p>just some advice for you guys. You all seem like intelligent people, so in terms of intelligence you'll be fine in the business world, regardless of your education. In college just be sure to refine your social skills and meet as many people as possible, if you want a career in the business world. Don't go to work for the "money", do something you'll enjoy it'll pay off in the end, as your quality of work will be better. I'm at San Diego state right now, it may not be ranked in the top 25, but it provides a very social atmosphere which is crucial for refining your business skills. Just keep those things in mind...don't look at which undergrad. business school can produce the best average salary, that's pointless. It's almost as pointless as the rankings IN MY MIND.</p>
<p>I graduated from UC Berkeley, and worked in tech investment banking in San Francisco. it was the hottest place and the hottest area to be working at the time. </p>
<p>We had 6 Berkeley grads in our analyst class. Harvard and Wharton had 3 each, with Stanford, Yale, and Princeton having 2 grads each. Dartmouth had one. </p>
<p>Berkeley undergrad is known for being tough, thats why employers know that more often than not, Berkeley (having the most difficult curves of any school) investment bankers outperform their counterparts at other schools.</p>
<p>How do math majors do? Can you major in math instead of econ or business and get recruited by the top firms? If you bomb out your freshman year in college and then turn it around, are you still screwed?</p>
<p>^ I was a PEIS Major. Others were Econ, Haas, or Engineering majors from Berkeley</p>
<p>Usually Math majors go into quant analyst roles or IT Consulting, rarely management consulting/investment banking roles.</p>
<p>BIGJAKE: "one question: how does Wharton compare to the top ivys like Harvard and Yale in being recruited by top companies...the business element should help right?"</p>
<p>Well I had an internship at UBS this past summer and I saw a list of the newly hired people from that list of like 80 there were 15 from Wharton, the next highest was harvard with 8, then yale with 6-7, then other schools like michigan, nyu, berkeley with 3-5. The rest of the people were scattered from other ivys, LACs, top 25 schools. I saw maybe 3 that were from schools not in the top 25.</p>