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I’d go to UCSD to play volleyball. I think you would regret not pursuing college sports, assuming you enjoy playing, in order to get slightly more edge in banking recruiting. I played rugby in college and I can’t imagine what my college experience would have been like without it.
Came from UCSD, you can achieve IB through the school. People have gone to MMs, BBs and EBs albeit a very small amount (~4 kids a year to IB). There is not very many on campus resources for IB (no good clubs or on campus recruiting) Recruiting will rely completely on your ability to snowball internships from fresh, soph, junior year and your networking capabilities.
If volleyball is important to you I would attend ucsd but you will have to work 2-3x harder than someone from UCLA would.
Hey man,
I'm also from UCSD and was wondering if you'd want to chat. I'm currently a junior with 2 decent internships so far and was wondering if IB, corp strat, or strategy consulting would be possible from where I stand now. I'd like to hear if you have any insights on the matter or suggestions on school resources to leverage.
Go to UCLA
Thank you for all your responses! I’m in for a tough decision and I appreciate all the advice I can get.
If you want to work in “high finance”, go to UCLA. Los Angeles (and OC b/c PIMCO) is still the fixed income capital of the world. Capital group. Guggenheim in Santa Monica. Investment banks in century city. Can tell you first hand I work with several ucla alumni, that and usc is fair common. Can’t think of a single IB/asset manager in SD
Good to know thank you. From what i’m gathering it sounds like it’s much harder to break into “high finance” out of Ucsd but still possible?
Literally impossible. I'd 100% go for UCLA. Just check linkedin and see where people go to. (coming from someone who's going to "high finance"
Complicated question because you want to play sports.
From a career perspective, you should go to UCLA. You'll have much better prospects IMO.
And change your major unless you want to be an actuary... No reason to do a hard major that will tank your GPA and prevent you from joining finance clubs and recruiting successfully. Econ will do the trick... Keep the maths major maybe if you want optionality for more quantitative careers. But even then actuarial maths might not be the best major for that.
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