In the fall I will be a sophomore at Georgetown double majoring in Economics and Math. Would transferring into their business school (MSB) give me a significant advantage when it comes to both getting a junior year internship and eventually a full time job with a decent IB in NYC. I really hate accounting and assume that I would hate some of the other business pre-reqs and would therefore prefer to stay in the College.
Also, since decent banking internships are hard to get for the summer of your sophomore year would interning at the Fed, IMF or World Bank be of any value when it comes to junior year internships and full time jobs.
Thanks in advance.
The aforementioned internships would be of value in the sense that they are talking points for interviews. They are the type of experiences that may help you stand out from the crowd of resumes.
As for your original question: I don't think transferring into the business school would give you a significantly better advantage. The double major you have is good, and Georgetown gets heavily recruited, so you should be just fine.
You realize the accounting knowledge is critical for banking, right? You might get around it in college but you'll see it in training.
It is not so much that I cannot do or handle accounting, it is just that I would rather take classes that I enjoy. I am fortunate in that I enjoy all the econ and math I take, and would prefer to avoid taking too much of what I despise.
Bump...anyone else have something to contribute
An internship at any of those places would help your chances greatly. Much better, in my opinion, than the people who spent their sophomore years working at a brokerage (I'm one of them).
From what I remember a little more than a third of the Georgetown interviewees were in the college or sfs. There were definitely more business school students, but I really attribute that to the msb being much more interested in banking from the start.
Bottom line: Transfer if you want to take the classes, but don't do it to look better for IBD internships--I don't think there's any real advantage.
Actually, come to think of it, keep your GPA up very high this next year and become a Baker scholar--they're the COL students who want to go into business (it's very prestigious and hard to get into though).
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