Undergraduate: USC VS UW-Madison for IB

I just got admitted to these two schools and for UW-madison I will be in the school of business. UW-Madison is a fall offer while USC is a 2019 spring offer. My future plan is to get a IB analyst job on Wall Street after undergraduate, or transfer to a target school after the freshman year. For my plan, which school do you experienced seniors think is better?

Thank you very much. This is a destiny-changing decision!

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  1. Set up a LinkedIn account
  2. Search for Investment Banking Analysts and filter for each school.
  3. Search for the number of VPs/MDs in IB for each school.
  4. Call each schools career center and ask which investment banks recruit on campus. Make sure they know the difference between an IB job at Citi and a job at Citi.

Do you want to go to NYC or SF?

For SF, I’d imagine with no research your chances are much higher at USC.

For NY while both are very solid schools I wouldn’t think either has a very strong presence in IB. You’d have a shot coming from each but it would require more networking on your part

 

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