USC Investment Banking(Undergraduate)

Alright so I have read a lot of threads on this topic as there are many, but a few are old and I'm looking for some advice more in the present. I have been offered only the TTP(Trojan transfer Plan) and In doing so I would spend 1 year in switzerland, paris, london, or Rome and then go to USC for the last 3 years of college(I lean toward Switzerland myself). Other than that the best options I have would be BU and American U(probably not great, but I'm not too sure for IB). I have also already gotten an internship at a local investment banking firm that I'm looking to go back to this summer. It's a small firm that I could probably go back to after college, but would that be a significant help on my resume for getting into a larger firm in la? I know that many people have stated that USC is really only for LA investment banking, which I am ok with, but is it doable if i wanted to to transfer to a NY firm? Do those kind of transfers happen often or not so much? I have also heard that the USC alumni network is very very good, does that still hold true for investment banking? I have met some people in the industry and one of them said he could help me get an internship position at Dimensional but really only once I'm near completion at a university(but that firm is very competitive and I'm not exactly sure how that will pan out). Any overall advice that someone who has gone through a similar process could give me? Thanks for your any interest.

Edit: I'm not overly happy with my current choices, would ditching this and trying to transfer to another college be better? I do have contacts in the IB industry that are really all in LA, but would I get more opportunity in NY or is there just so much competition that it is a slaughter? Thanks again for any interest or insight anyone could give.

 

I'm assuming you went to USC. The career center is a joke. The get less and less quality employers. Southern Wine Spirit? I mean come on, when I pay 50,000 grand a year, I don't want to work for some shitty sales job.

 

huh. my personal experience with usc's career center was different from yours, i guess. i thought they bent-over-backwards to help me. in fact, they hooked me up with a job that is hard to get out of undergrad.

and, as a recent grad, i would have to say that usc is not a core target for ib outside of LA/SF. its kinda of in between a target and non-target.

--- man made the money, money never made the man
 

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