<p>I am a canadian permanent resident
and I want to transfer to business-related major to a elite college like Wharton or Harvard from a Canadian university, then which one(or ones)should be in my list?</p>
<p>Don't go to a university with intentions to transfer elsewhere - it's like shooting yourself in the foot. You might really like it there.</p>
<p>Why not select a great university in canada and stay there for four years, do really well and go to a US school for an MBA? U of T, McGill and Queen's would be just fine.</p>
<p>I wanna go to Wharton, thats my dream school, and if I don achieve it, i may go to a canada's school and then transfer,,,, well,,,, so if anyone have a idea for me ll be great</p>
<p>bumbumpbumpbump</p>
<p>Queens Uni and McGill are top choices you could look into...</p>
<p>Mcgill is generally considered the most elite college in Canada eh? I mean in terms of reputation from the Americans' aspect</p>
<p>You may want to consider your chances. The most elite schools admit few transfer students. For example, Princeton accepts no transfer as a rule; Yale admitted 30 out of 681 transfer applicants last year (25 enrolled); Stanford admitted 62... And the transfer "quota" are skewed towards the departments with the most vacancies. How many spots are open to external transfer to Wharton?</p>
<p>Wharton recommends that you transfer in as a sophomore as there are few spots for juniors. That means you only have one term of college performance to show, and your high school GPA and test scores still play a major role.</p>
<p>GoBlue81 do you have the transfer data of Wharton?</p>
<p>don't dream it. Harvard took 30 out of 3000 last year. Its not any easier to transfer in than to get in in the first place.</p>
<p>ah.... maybe I am dreaming, then which school in canada is the best in terms of placement of I-banking?</p>
<p>I-banking.......I think it is the degree that is more relevant than the school which you're from.</p>
<p>York U is probably the best choice, if you are intend to transfer! it's easy to get a 9.0 there, which looks good on your transcript. and among those mediocre students, you'll definitely stand out as a motivated student with a lot of potential and you'll be able to receive terrific recommendation from your profs.
Best of luck</p>
<p>"-banking.......I think it is the degree that is more relevant than the school which you're from."</p>
<p>Other way around. School is more important than the degree.</p>
<p>Consider this,</p>
<p>A BA(Linguistics and History) graduate from Yale and a BSc(mathematics or physics) or BEng graduate from Wisconsin-Madison. Who do you think is more suitable to be employed as an investment banker?</p>
<p>You can be from Harvard but without a competency in advance mathematics, you won't be able to touch technical stuff in I-banking.</p>
<p>University of Toronto.</p>
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I am at the University of Toronto and i don't find it making transfer process easier, if anything it's harder here to get recommendations, but maybe that's just me being my incompetent self :(</p>
<p>Elmy, who was talking about technical stuff or suitability. We were talking about placement. Besides, if you think that investment banking at entry levels is technical or complex to learn, you are mistaken.</p>
<p>An interesting conversation betweed a Lehman recruiter and a recently hired Penn comparative literature student:</p>
<p>Student: "I am a bit worried about being up to the task, I've never studied or done anything related to finance before".
Recruiter: "Honey, it's not like it's rocket science".</p>
<p>so you guys think u of t is the best choice?</p>
<p>Neither are engineers or mathematicians trained in the field of finance. In case you were thinking, those with a background in university mathematics are better potential employees because of the fact that they were trained in handling immense amount of data, besides having a developed critical and analytical mind, which of course is essential in such majors. </p>
<p>It is not that BA graduates are useless, it is just that science graduates usually have skills which are useful in the fields of finance and business. If they didn't have those skills, they wouldn't not have survive their degree. And that is what employers are seeking for.</p>
<p>Take a look at Imperial College. Yes, it is a good school but that is not the reason why so many firms choose to scout for recruits there. Unlike Oxford and Cambridge, Imperial is a school wholly dedicated to the sciences, as such majority if not all of the students were trained in the natural sciences, hence a large bulk of 'selections' to choose from.</p>
<p>There is a difference between an investment banker and an office clerk in an investment bank.</p>
<p>The usual entry-level position at an investment bank, no matter if you are a finance major from Wharton or an english major from Princeton, is research analyst - not "office clerk". What WILL differ is the initial training period - depending on your previous skills you will start your training at different levels. </p>
<p>Investment banking is extremely prestige-conscious, and as such what matters is what school you went to. Why do you think the larger banks recruit almost exclusively at the most presitigious schools in the country and not so much at schools with good engineering or s cience departments but less overall prestige?</p>
<p>As for Europe, the degree is much more important there than in the US.</p>