I’ve read a bit on here that outside of those who graduate from US target schools, it’s very hard to land a job at Wall Street. Surely top Canadian schools like McGill, UofToronto, and University of British Columbia are still pretty good right? Is the international barrier a problem? Thanks a lot
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Ivey is actually pretty savage in terms of placing into top IBD groups and various buyside funds.
Ivey is ok but the others are worthless. Even then you're likely better off with a "worse" US school and getting a green card while you're at it.
Ivey and queens place on Wall Street and Cali pretty easily. McGill HIM and UBC PMF program place into top groups in New York as well. Every other Canadian school has got no chance in hell to lock a USA firm
Kind of a bad way of looking at it though because the odds are still worse than going to an American school. If you can get into ubc's bcomm you can probably get into some good US schools.
Definitely a lot cheaper in Canada . It’s a tough argument because there is a lot of competition at these elite us targets and some even get beat out my URm diversity and non targets. There are a lot more analyst spots available though , especially at the boutique and mm level in the USA
Just from personal experience i don't think so. I go to a semi target and applied to universities in Ontario and got rejected every single time but i doubt that is the norm
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