Current Sophomore seeking help!

Hey Everyone.

It's actually my first post after reading the site for a couple of months. I recently got an offer for JPM's S&T program as a sophomore and also an offer for CS Doug Paul Scholarship program for S&T. I was wondering, as someone who is generally interested in doing IB after this summer, which would be a better offer? CS is offering me some scholarship money on top of the summer pay, plus it seems like a more tight knit community, but what do i know...

JPM seems to be a better "name" and being there over the summer would make it easier to come back for IB, but CS seems smaller and easier to switch into a group of my choosing for the next summer. In the long run, I'm interested in going to a hedge fund and working on specific company investments.

Any help is welcome. Thank you!

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From what I reckon, CS has been cutting their Fixed Income Division, plus all of the European banks are getting killed by the European regulators. American banks' earnings were led by their Fixed Income / S&T, so I would stick with JPM, as you'd probably gain more experience, as JPM was one of the few that stuck with their FICC division throughout the bad times. Maybe someone else can chime in, although maybe this doesn't matter that much if you're moving next summer to IBD.

 

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