Bocconi for an American?
American considering applying to Bocconi in addition to US universities. Before university I've been doing blue-collar work and traveling which has shown me how much I enjoy being outside of the US. I think it would be amazing and better for me to spend years in Milan instead of some random American college town. However I still want to recruit for US positions because that's where I want to from a career in the next 40 years. Other posts have all been directed at Europeans explaining how difficult it is to recruit for US jobs from Europe. However I was wondering how much more difficult it is for me since I would not have visa constraints. Other problem would be I would have 1 less year/internship compared to my American peers due to the 3 year degree. (unless I get a master) I am very interested in trying to land a MM HF role but will also be pursuing IB.
I am basically wondering how much this would screw me over in pursuit of a personal desire of mine. I'm fairly certain I would get in with my 1580 SAT so this has been something that's been weighing heavily on me. Any thoughts are appreciated.
Just study abroad there for 1-2 semesters.
“However I still want to recruit for US positions because that's where I want to from a career in the next 40 years.”
You have a lot of sloppy sentences in your query. Proofread, dude.
What precisely are you looking to do that would helped or hurt if you attended Bocconi?
Apologies, I meant to say form. You also used the wrong tense of help here though so no one is perfect.
I’m just generally trying to get a sense for how difficult recruiting into the US from Bocconi or another continental European university would be. I think I would be happier in Europe for school but I’m not sure if it’s worth the extra difficulty recruiting.
It’s gonna be really tough to recruit, networking is huge in the U.S. & not having an alumni base in the location you’re targeting is gonna hurt.
Name recognition is good in Europe but outside of that I don’t think people know Bocconi - if you really want to study outside of the U.S. you can target Oxbridge which has a better cachet.
But as someone else pointed out just do an exchange for a couple semesters or take a year off to travel.
idk abt recruiting in usa from there, prob harder. but the milan/big eu city experience is insane, 2 hr flight and ur in madrid best city to party rn, milan is pretty good too gets really degenerate during fashion week. Bocconi kids are cool asf, think SMU but in europe.
MM HF in the states is your longterm goal so I wouldn't. Unless youre able to pull off a Bocconi --> London IBD for 1 year and then transfer to NYC IBD so youre ontrack for MM HF recruiting. It's a narrow window and a dangerous game though.
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