Am I screwed if I don't get into Haas at UCB?

So I got accepted into UC Berkeley, but am debating whether I should go or stay in Canada to attend Western Ontario with an advanced entry opportunity into Ivey business School. I alright know Berkeley is a semi-target at best for Ibanking and if I don't get into Haas then am I screwed?

Any thoughts? Thanks!

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Went to the other school across the bay but have a good amount of friends who went to UCB, both Haas and non-Haas. If you think UCB is a semi-target, then all the other schools but HYPS and Wharton would be semi-targets. All the traditional BB and EB players seem to recruit from there. Haas does give you a leg up to a degree but there’s a ton of Econ/Stats/Science guys who are also in the field.

Personally I think Ivey is fantastic, especially if its a lot cheaper for you. They seem to pump out a ton of good analysts all over the Street. You’ll be fine with either choice if you keep up your GPA and take on good internships

 

From what I've read UCB is only a semi-target with many other schools having higher recruitment rates. I guess that might have to do with the fact that unlike schools like NYU, a lot of people at UCB choose to do consulting over finance. Would you consider UCB as a target? Also Does Ivey have better or equal reach as UCB for the American job market? As much as I love Toronto I'd love to expand my horizons one day, and I feel like it'll be much harder with an Ivey degree.

 

No idea how many people go into consulting vs. IB vs. other fields from Haas/Econ, but having lived in the Bay Area & meeting my friends' peers from Cal, seems like if your a high-caliber student, you'll be fine. I think if you look at the standalone numbers, the number of students who went to Cal going into IB is far less than a Stern just cause a lot of them join tech firms. If you want to do banking from Cal, if you prepare and have the stats, seems like there's opportunities plenty. Personally, I think & a good amount of others here would see them as a target and with Stanford as the top 2 recruited out of West Coast schools.

I probably shouldn't comment on Ivey since I don't know much about it, but of what I do know is that there seems to be a great contingency in both NYC and SF banks.

 
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