JEF IB vs A&M PEPI

Both are for positions out of college. Would be thrilled with either one individually but struggling to split the difference between them and decide. Can’t say city/coverage group for privacy.

Comp-wise, after tax and expenses, both are pretty much equal on a cash basis.

PEPI probably has better WLB but only slightly? I will get to travel more and experience more things/geographies/industries for the role.

I plan to go to B school in 4 years (parents are paying and adamant I go). I don’t really know what I want to do with my life, aside from get big S-tier names on my resume while I still am young. I suppose neither of these names are truly household, so my objectives of B school would be to prestigemaxx and salarymaxx. Feel like both paths would still set me up well

I have always been interested in finance so if I went with JEF I’d probably try and do IB+PE before B school. This path is stronger for investing seats in the future, but idk if I want to be an investor.

If I went with A&M, I’d probably recruit for IB post-MBA to still have that transaction experience on my resume. From that, long-term I don’t know if I want to stay in finance forever, so I’m thinking having the A&M operational skillset for industry roles may be really useful. How would you monkeys evaluate and decide?

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