Why is everyone on the floor an economics / business student in M&A

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Baffling to me like i saw the same profile everywhere in coffee chats and its so crazy

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Analyst 1 in IB - Cov

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This is like saying its surprising software engineers are CS majors

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Prospect in IB - Gen

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Analyst 1 in IB - Cov
This is like saying its surprising software engineers are CS majors

Not really, seen a wider spread of maths, physics, engineering majors also in SWE

The bias towards econ / business was like 94% on the floor

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