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0 Help me pick a college. 1 2y
+5 LBS MiM interview 5 2y
+10 High School senior confused on how to articulate WHY IB 1 2y
0 Business + math double major? 1 2y
0 Business + math at target school? 1 2y
+1 Mcgill finance vs UdeM Law 1 2y
+10 MSc Finance from UCL and IB / AM roles in UK 5 2y
0 Would transferring to UVA Mcintire after two semester at CC give me shoot at IB? 1 2y
+6 USC Marshall vs Emory Goizueta 1 2y
+20 Should I go to LBS? 14 2y
+12 Non-MBA Career Pivot into Investment Banking - Seeking Advice and Success Stories 1 2y
+9 Highschool Senior Majoring in Finance Debaiting weather Marquette or University of Minnesota Twin Cities 3 2y
+9 Which school is better to transfer from if I aspire to get into IB: UMiami or GWU? 1 2y
+10 German target schools for London recruiting 6 1y
+49 Is Brown University a Target School? 28 1y
+8 ESCP, City, University of London, WHU, St. Gallen 5 2y
0 Full-Time MBA in Finance 1 2y
+66 Modern Alternatives to MBA 18 2y
+4 UVA vs Emory for IB, PE, and Consulting 7 2y
0 What are the chances 3 2y
0 Fordham Gabelli LC vs. Penn State Smeal vs. IU Kelley 1 2y
+4 Best School 4 2y
+29 Denied from Kelley. Where do I go from here? 15 2y
+25 First Year College Choice (Making The Best of a Bad Situation) 12 2y
0 Undergrad School Decision for IB: UT Austin (McCombs w/ BHP) vs UC Berkeley (Direct Haas Admit) 1 2y
0 Best School 1 2y
+7 Does an exchange program make you an alumni? 3 2y
0 Harvard Dual Degree 1 2y
+12 Sports at University 1 2y
+6 What are my HBS 2+2 chances? 1 2y
+13 Paying for grad school 3 2y
+5 4 Series Exams in 90 days 3 2y
+30 UK MSc Finance 43 2w
+20 Marshall vs Ross Undergrad 10 2y
0 Which undergrad non target should I go to for PWM 3 2y
0 Emory Goizueta vs USC Marshall 1 2y
+6 H/S/W to Growth/VC/PE/HF 2 2y
+10 MFin vs M7 MBA as an International - For IB and beyond 1 2y
+6 Moving to US from Europe with Green Card 1 2y
+15 Help me decide Undergraduate Program (Princeton or Penn (Wharton) 6 2y
+9 Trying to gauge the best school for IB (that I got into) 8 2y
+16 Is Cornell really that bad? 21 1y
0 Help me pick my undergrad school - interested in management consulting, VC, finance and IB, but too early to know for sure 1 2y
+12 Columbia Business School MSAFA program reputation on the street 7 9mo
+9 Emory or UF? 2 2y
0 Any 'pre-med / med school dropout' users here that now work in Finance / Strategy roles? 1 2y
0 Deciding Whether to Add Accounting Major or Not 1 2y
0 Tufts, Emory or UVA 3 2y
+14 Imperial College London MSc Finance Job Prospects 2 2y
+11 What changes do I have at getting in? 2 2y
0 MIT Vs Penn LSM 1 2y
+9 Deciding on Grad School - All Help is Appreciated! 1 2y
+11 How is Emory? 4 2y
+8 USC Marshall vs Warwick (Econ) vs UVA (Econ) vs UT Austin McCombs vs Emory Goizueta 8 2y
+6 Choosing Undergrad as a HS Senior 2 2y
+6 Spring weeks/interships doing a non-finance related degree at LSE? 1 2y
+13 Help: BU Questrom vs. UIUC Gies vs. CMU Tepper vs. NYU CAS 5 2y
+18 Updated 2024 Consensus On Target Schools 10 2y
+12 Leaving new job at BB in NY for Msc in Europe? 1 2y
+14 What relevant experience can a high school student get? 7 2y
+8 GMAT 2 2y
+29 Harvard vs Princeton for undergrad 20 1y
+5 Columbia vs USC Marshall vs UMich Ross 3 2y
+5 UMich Ross vs Notre Dame Mendoza (Undergrad) 2 2y
+10 Undergrad WashU vs Emory vs Claremont McKenna 8 2y
0 Babson vs. Colgate vs. Wesleyan vs. Lehigh (M.S. Financial Engineering) vs. Wake Forest 1 2y
+1 SMU vs IU vs Fordham vs Penn State 2 2y
0 UVA vs WashU StL vs Rice for college 1 2y
+9 Best time to apply for MBA ? 1 2y
+11 Wharton vs. Princeton Econ. 6 2y
+14 Columbia Dual BA @ Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) or UCLA for Investment Banking/Finance 5 2y
+49 MBA more of a scam than Catholic Church 10 2y
0 UCL History Politics Economics 2 2y
+19 Columbia Dual BA vs UCLA 4 2y
0 Can anyone who is an alumni at University of Miami and got a good job in finance comment. Also how they did it. Is it relatively easy to get a high paying finance job out of Umiami? Reply Quote Report Other 1 2y
+9 UIUC Gies v. Indiana Kelley v. Northeastern D'Amore McKim v. SMU Cox for Finance Undergrad 1 2y
+13 What School Would You Recommend For Me? (Investment Banking) 3 2y
+18 UChicago vs Georgetown vs Dartmouth vs UC Berkeley 14 2y
+14 Importance of university 4 1y
+142 Thoughts from a Stanford MBA and PE Associate 59 2y
+9 Weighing Options: MSF, MBA and Europe to US 2 1y
+23 Bowdoin or Emory? 10 2y
+10 High Schooler Deciding Yale vs Wharton for IB 10 2y
+9 Is it even worth it? 1 2y
+8 High School Asset Management Internship 1 2y
+54 Dartmouth vs. Brown vs. UVA vs. Cornell 24 2y
+5 Wharton vs CAS at Penn 7 2y
+12 Consulting/Banking in the EU - No hope without native level language fluency? 20 2y
+2 UMich Ross or Northwestern? 3 2y
+7 USC Marshall (business) vs UMICH LSA (econ) 2 2y
+7 Northwestern econ vs CMC vs Boston College finance vs Emory vs Middlebury vs Tufts vs UIUC Finance vs IU Kelley 6 1y
+23 Help a high school senior decide his future 10 2y
+11 UC Berkeley Haas vs UCLA Business Economics Undergrad 7 2y
+7 College Choices for IB 2 2y
+96 Would I be stupid to pass on Columbia (undergrad) 38 2y
+3 CMU Tepper vs UC Berkeley Letter and Science for quant (undergrad) 1 2y
+1 Help Choose Undergrad 2 2y
0 Need Undergrad help 1 2y
+54 Which college (non target) should I go to for a Quant position at a MMHF pod 38 1y

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