Fortune 50 Tech Company FDLP vs. Corporate Banking

Pay is similar with banking being a little bit more.
Not really sure what location I would get as I just went to a superday somewhere in CA or TX ( I don't want to live on the East Coast)

If I wanted to end up in corporate finance after attending a top MBA (Yale, Booth, Wharton, Tuck, etc.) Which is the best route?

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To add onto ABD, here are reasons to go to the FLDP:

1) If you like the FLDP and like the company, you've got your career figured out.

2) If you want to stay with the company post-MBA and it's near a good school, you can go part-time and get a substantial amount of it paid for without sacrificing work experience.

3) It'll probably take you around the same amount of time to get into a top MBA from CorpBanking as CorpFin (~4 years).

4) If you want to end up in CorpFin, why not jump in? A corpbanking experience doesn't add nearly the value to a resume as IBD.

I know there's a corporate banker somewhere around on WSO, maybe he'll know wassup (and/or @"happypantsmcgee" might be able to weigh in a bit).

"You stop being an asshole when it sucks to be you." -IlliniProgrammer "Your grammar made me wish I'd been aborted." -happypantsmcgee
 

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