<p>I’d rather do ibd/s&t lol, but just needed backup options.</p>
<p>What do you guys think about college choice? Some have said that it makes a significant difference, some say otherwise.</p>
<p>On the first page, someone mentioned getting a 3.6 at a prestigious school or a 3.9 at a non prestigious. Generally, what could be considered as prestigious/not? UPenn v. UWisc Madison? </p>
<p>What do recruiters think about liberal arts education in economics or something?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Prestigious/not would be more along the lines of a Tier 1 school vs. a Tier 3 school. With that said, if you’re at UPenn, especially if it’s Wharton, you can do a lot better than a Big 4 (unless you genuinely want to go into public accounting)</p>
<p>What would be considered tier 1 or tier 3?</p>
<p>Rankings are worthless.</p>
<p>What would be considered tier 1 or tier 3?</p>
<p>Accidental double, but I think rankings can hold some significance.</p>
<p>I agree that rankings hold some value. Keep in mind that there are different ranking services (USNWR, Forbes, Business Week, etc. etc.) that can vary quite a bit and different criteria is used to rank depending on who is doing the ranking. Different concentrations within a school would also be ranked differently-- you cannot just look at the entire Business school at a particular college without breaking out Accounting. You might look at breaking down the top 100 ranked schools into tiers 1 through 3, giving each tier about 33 schools each.</p>
<p>Thanks jshain. I know that rankings are subjective and often inaccurate to some degree, but would you think that attending a tier 3 school with a high gpq would hurt chances at a Big 4 job compared to a top tier school with a avg. gpa (3.8-4.0)?</p>
<p>I have told this story a dozen times in the past month or two: My D interned this past summer in San Jose CA with a Big 4. (She attends school on the east coast but we live in CA and she wanted to work in CA when she graduates.) CA state universities were well-represented amongst these interns and most of them, if not all of them, were offered fulltime positions upon graduating this spring. Do well in school, be active in the business clubs, network with recruiters any chance you get, be personable, and interview well. This trumps attending the most prestigious schools… particularly in Accounting!</p>
<p>Great! I really appreciate it. I was having troubles over whether I should stress over getting into a top school our if I should stay nearby and go to Madison.</p>
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<p>Many would agree that, most of the big-4 interns will be offered full time position upon graduation unless they mess up. It doesn’t matter which school he/she attends.</p>
<p>jshain, the key point is, how many of the accounting majors in SJSU get summer internship. Do you have that number? Or do you have the number of the graduating acct major that have big-4 offer regardless of having done a summer internship? For that, my source indicates another nearby program sends half of the accounting majors for big-4 summer internship. I don’t think SJSU has the similar number.</p>
<p>I’m not suggesting one has to attend a prestigious school for accounting. Just want to point out that big-4 do recruit more in certain schools.</p>
<p>Accounting is one of the few professions I know of where, as long as the Big 4 comes to your campus, college rankings seem to make next to no difference.</p>
<p>I am 3.8+, dub major, average involvement/average internship experience, and I pretty easily got first rounds and callbacks with all 3 of the Big 4 I applied with.</p>
<p>a_mom, I don’t have the percentage number of interns from SJSU versus, say, a Santa Clara U (if that’s the school you were referring to). But my D indicated that there were about as many SJSU interns as SCU interns at the firm she worked at this summer. I’m also not suggesting that Big 4’s recruit the same percentage of kids at SJSU as SCU. I don’t have any hard data, just the feedback of my D . I think KaiLang is correct: as long as they come to your school, you have a chance. I think the fact that most interns are offered permanent positions is a testament to how good their criteria standards and screening process is.</p>
<p>Hey Kailang, after your first round of interviews with the big 4, how long did they wait to tell you that you were invited for second round of interviews?</p>
<p>Hey all I have a question. When the big 4 asks for your major gpa, are they looking for just the accounting concentration classes strictly or overall business including everything related to business(accounting, finance, management, etc)?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>As a rising Junior at The University of Alabama, should DS be applying to a summer leadership conference such as PWC “Elevate Your Summer” , EY’s Emerging Leader Summit, or Deloitte NextGen Leaders Conference?<br>
He is studying abroad (London-international financial accounting standards course) then will work in Germany all which ends June 30. He has a 4.13 GPA, double major, leadership roles…</p>