Help deciding

I'm a huge advocate of the city of Chicago. I've been to several North American and European cities for an extended period of time (longer than a month) and Chi-town pretty much tops my list.I think it's a great place to live, young or old, winter or summer and the standard of living is 100% better than NYC. Houston's cool, but if the groups are comparable, I would go CS Chicago.

Thanks. Anyone else?

CS Chicago hands down.

I'd much rather take cold Chicago winters over nasty, humid Houston summers. Summers in Chicago on the lake is amazing. Austin and to certain extent, Dallas are the only cool cities in Texas.

Yeah, I was leaning toward Chicago as well, but the girlfriend in Dallas really wants me to choose Houston, lol ;) Another thing is that industrials in this country are really dying out, even though Business Services group makes up for that in Chicago, but Energy is really hot right now, but yet again, enery can be either boom or bust, and no one knows what'll happen in 2-3 years.

isn't dying out. Who's telling you that? Look at the consolidation in the steel industry that has taken place. Industrials is so broad at most banks that one sector will always be busy when others are slower. It's only 10 week internship. For full-time, you can make decision on what to do later.

Well, that's just an opinion of some of the hedge fund people. But anyways, what do you think the exit opps would be for each?

Would be interested in hearing this as well. Are you a UT student (don't have to answer if you don't want to)? The people at JPM Houston seemed pretty nice, but their office was kind of meh, not sure what that says about the experience there, though, haha. I had to call them and tell them I couldn't take the job since my offer was exploding 1 day after their superday - I will probably try to talk to them again next fall though.

No, i'm not from UT. I think their office was OK inside but it is in a VERY old building. They used to be in the JPMorganChase tower (the tallest in Texas), but according to them, moved out since JPMorgan was able to charge others really high rent to be in that tower. CS Chicago, on the other hand, is in the AT&T Corporate Center, on the 42nd floor. Beautiful views, GRAND lobby, right across the street from Sears tower. But their office inside was blaaah... But that's not even a consideration, just some background...

in NYC are blah as well. GS, CS, UBS, and JPM have below-par offices. Lehman and MS have really nice offices since building is new. However, they're in Times sq. which i'd much rather avoid with all tourists running around there.

Anyone else have an opinion? I was leaning toward CS Chicago also, but according to Bloomberg league tables JPMorgan is on a rampage this year in debt and equity...

Well if money is important to you in your first couple of years, cost of living is most likely going to be less in Houston than Chicago, but I'm sure you know that. Just curious how long each of them gave you to decide? I know you must have had the JPM offer for a least a week and a half now. Have they been putting a lot of pressure on you to decide?