McGill Vs U Toronto
For college student wanting to work in IB in the U.S., would it be better for them to attend U Toronto or McGill?
I'm currently a high school senior that has applied to both, and am trying to understand which would create the easiest path to getting a job.
I would intend to major in Economics, Finance, or a mix both because that is what I understand to be the best majors. Is that correct or are there more desirable degrees that maybe feature more math like stats?
Thanks!
tom
I Go to your school and save yourself the trouble
Don't go to either of these schools.
Ivey or Queens are undoubtedly the two best schools for breaking into finance. Kids from Waterloo/Laurier/McGill/UBC will occasionally make it to the states, but at lower rates and volumes than at Ivey or Queens. Do your best to transfer to Ivey or Queens if you've only applied to UofT and McGill.
Or just go to a US school
If your goal is to work in the US then UToronto. McGill is also good but not as well-known. Queens and Ivey aren't widely known in the US especially outside of the northeast. However UToronto is famous for grade deflation so keep that in mind, you might want to spend a year at a state school and then transfer to a T25.
McGill absolutely clears UofT in terms of finance placements both in Canada and the US. Queen and Ivey are both much stronger in terms of west coast placements than northeast (exception being Ivey's relationship with Evercore). In fact Ivey got their break into the US by targeting west coast and Queens got its break by leveraging Ivey's placements.
^ I consistently see 4-6+ kids/year I've met from Ivey just going to Evercore.
Among these universities, McGill by far has the best international repute.
At US EB, definetly go McGill
Why is no one talking about the fact that if OP plans to work in the US they should just directly apply to a US school? Americans don’t give af about Canada and factually the pipeline to the US from the schools besides Ivey have been getting smaller.
Absolutely agree, but given he's a senior now, he'd have to take a gap year to apply/prepare & take the SAT/pay international tuition. Feel like it would be more feasible for him to just go to McGill.
I disagree if he’s all in on the US. Going to a US school makes navigating immigration a lot easier than going from Canada to the US directly, especially if OP wants to move there permanently. If he just wanted a school that has the opportunity to go to the US that’s fine, he but if that’s all he wants to do then he needs to go to a US school and doing the gap year is worth it.
McGill hands down, although would try to get into Queen's / Ivey if this is still on the table. Avoid UofT at all costs, never heard a single good thing from all of the alums I talked to.
u of t if rotman, it's a global brand and highly ranked. may not translate perfectly well in the immediate term but will carry weight for the long run
Congrats on Rotman!
lmao wtf is wrong with you. im not even in canada
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