Best Finance Clubs at UC Berkeley for IB/PE?

To be honest, a lot of the "prestigious" clubs don't necessarily help you that much; it's all about the alumni, to be honest. BFC is really good if you want a social experience and gets the rap of being the "fratty" one of them all, and BIG is the opposite, being the most technically enabled club, with most kids not recruiting for banking or PE out of BIG. That said, UFA is probably the most cracked in terms of pure network out of the clubs, as it tends to be a circle jerk of kids in all of the top consulting and business clubs. With that said, though, the business frats tend to be the ones with the best pure IB/PE placements and dedication to helping each other prepare, etc. The only ones really worth rushing are DSP (UBG), CBA (now AKPsi), and BAP, although BAP has been on the come-down in recent years and is primarily Asian. In terms of hazing, they're all not great, but UBG is by far the worst and slightly unethical in some of the shit they do. Granted, they have a direct GS TMT pipeline and place the best EB/BB-wise on campus, with really dedicated alumni. CBA tends to be more academic hazing, and BAP the opposite, with primarily socially oriented hazing, but both have fairly dedicated alumni too and decent placements. Overall really just depends on what you want, and honestly, it all is fairly subjective, but my recommendation is just to meet everyone at tabling and coffee chat the ones you like.