Evaluate My Chances for London and Paris IB, Need Some Advice!!
Hello everyone,
I have just graduated from BSc. Econ program a couple months ago, from southeastern Europe (non-EU). I am having a difficult time evaluating my chance for London and Paris IB. I got accepted to Master in Quantative Economics Digital Economics Track with a specialization in Finance at Universite Paris-Dauphine, here; https://dauphine.psl.eu/en/training/masters-degre… I also applied to bunch of other target and semi target programs in UK and FRA but didn't receive lots of offers probably due to low GPA of mine (health reasons) and no gmat as well. But I have good internships (MM (Barclays/HSBC type) digital finance, big four audit, global well-known firm financial analyst), 4 languages and a couple of research papers on macroecon and finance.
My goal is to land an IB or Consulting job after graduation in London or Paris (I have an intermediate French, can bring it up to working fluency I think). I am kinda aiming for well-known places with good reputation regardless of market size.I know it is not the perfect place to be for the goal. However, I am ready to do whatever it takes such as networking very strong etc. What do you think about my situation? Is it possible to land IB/Consult with serious work and networking or is it just impossible to make it? And do you have any recommendations for me at this point? Any sort of advice is appreciated. Thank you very much!
Btw even though I will probably attend Dauphine, I am still waiting for the admission results from these schools in US and UK; University of Manchester Msc Financial Economics (Received Offer) City, University of London Msc Financial Economics Boston College Applied Econ
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You will need native fluency for Paris IB. “Bring up to working fluency I think” will not be enough.
Yeah I have heard that, that's why I am studying it on a daily basis and just practicing with people as much as possible,
however, for example when I was in France as an exchange student, I had an interview with a big four for a corp. finance internship. When I asked them specifically about this, they told me that they want %100 fluency but nativeness is not required though still my French wasn't good enough as an upper-intermediate level, but I see your point.
Any other advice on London and Paris IB?
Why have you created a second thread asking the exact same thing?
You’re only going to get the same answers.
People have told you what they’ve experienced. They’ve told you that your French won’t be fluent enough. You’re disagreeing based on your own personal anecdotes - that’s fine and it’s your choice to listen to the advice of others or not.
Btw I have just received offers from these two programmes as well;
University of Manchester Msc Financial Economics; not a London IB target or even a good semi target it seems but I am guessing better for London IB compared to Dauphine, however I have heard that London IB HR likes good European unis more compared to average UK schools, masters. Anyone can confirm this about Manchester vs Dauphine for London IB??
Paris School of Economics with Ecole des Ponts ParisTech MSc Economic Decision and Cost Benefit Analysis; (I think better for Consulting but would lower my chances for IB which is my priority but still undecided, any advices??
I'm French. Choose the MSc Economic Decision & Cost Benefit Analysis. Ecole des Ponts ParisTech is a target and the programme includes courses in corporate finance and investment, you'd be able to get interviews in IB & consulting for London, and maybe IB for Paris (as someone above said, you need excellent fluency for consulting in Paris). To maximize your chances, say that you're interested in working in the industrials coverage group, which is why you chose to study for a master at an engineering school (partially at least).
Dauphine is good but the master is not, and Manchester is not a target. Since networking doesn't really work in the UK, choose the target.
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