<p>i would like to revive this thread by strongly advising any highschool seniors and juniors from taking dyip10's info as credible info. this young punk has unfortuntly been smearing this website with useless garbage which is proven innacurate.</p>
<p>for example, NO bulge brackets will never recruit at ucirvine. i went to ucirvine, and the rep still sucks. the biz school is a failed project. and OC just doesnt have any bulge brackets in the area with any pull. big biz does not like OC b/c there is not enough commerece going on in the OC. while getting a top entry level job at a top firm is not impossible, its damn near impossible to the point where you might as well have gone to a cal state and done your mba 5 yrs down the line (it would be cheaper that way, since you would need an mba anyway to break into middle management). my sister went to uci for econ. my cousin went to uci for engineering and later got his mba from ucla. his brother (my other cousin) went to USC. we talk. and we come to the same conclusion every time. you go to uci to study engineering or bio to become a phd or doctor. you do not go to uci in order to get a carerr in the biz world. my poor poor sister, she graduated with a 3.7 and honors with strong leadership. she barely earned 30 G a yr working back office for duke flour daniel after graduation. her job was in aliso viejo. if a ucirvine econ grad wants to make money in the biz world, they would have to atkeast move to LA, which is saturated by Trojans.</p>
<p>in conclusion, do not take dyip10's advice as good information.</p>
<p>MrTrojanMan, reread my post, I don't find that we disagree on anything. Nobody knows the future of UCI's business major. But "right now the bulge-bracket investment banks (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Lehman Brothers, etc) rarely hire from UCI and UCSB." You will rarely find an ibanker from UCI or UCSB, but if you look hard enough I'll sure you'll find one. There are a lot more Bruins and Trojans in ibanking. </p>
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this young punk has unfortuntly been smearing this website with useless garbage which is proven innacurate.
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What useless garbage? Why the attitude?</p>
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UCI graduates do fine in the business world.
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I agree. There are no Wall Street firms in OC, but there are many other companies in OC that hire UCI grads.</p>
<p>ok first off i have not been on this site since high school! welcome back spicyspaghetti6 with your new account! thank you thank you... too kind really...</p>
<p>i agree with the general remarks about ucla, cal, and usc being good and competetive schools. i also agree that many out of state applicants will have a harder time getting into the two ucs compared to usc. however, i do not agree with the claim that californians in general have an easier time getting into ucb or ucla than usc. i think the opposite in fact is true. for example, usc accepted myriad of students from my high school who really had aweful stats. how do i know? because my friends and i had acces to ARIES, a program that stores everyone's info--class, grades, address etc. we were unable to change anything (we wouldn't even if we could--or would we ^__^) but we got the whole birds eye view on academic records. having compared the data on ARIES with the last edition of our school newspaper (which revealed which college everyone was attending), it's extremely reasonable to say that pretty much everyone with over a 3.3 and half a brain at my school got into usc whereas a select few got into ucla or cal. </p>
<p>i love usc and i'm not bashing it but common--comparing cal with usc is ridiculous!</p>
<p>^ seeing how USC has an acceptance rate of 25-27 percent (instate and outofstate) i really doubt all the half brains at your school got into USC.</p>
<p>UCLA has about the same stats but since 95% is instate i would say if you are a california citizen (dont have to compete with oos) it would be easier to get into UCLA than USC.</p>