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+44 Reapplicant Strategy for M7 MBA 6 1y
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+12 MBA Pick: Michigan Ross$$ vs. Cornell Johnson$$ vs. UVA Darden$$ v Duke Fuqua(WL) - for IB 1 1y
+1 NYC Secondaries or Boston MM Buyout 4 1y
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+9 What happened to those IU Kelley kids? 1 1y
+15 Warwick vs St Andrews vs Grinnell 3 1y
+1 Post-MBA assoc in NYC - coming back to Toronto 2 1y
+9 [High School Senior] Torn Between Erasmus University Rotterdam and UT Dallas for Finance Career (PE/IB Goal) – Need Guidance 1 1y
0 How is Boston College for IB career? 1 1y
+24 Are My A-Levels a Problem for IB despite strong University? 24 1y
0 Brit going to University of Sydney 1 1y
+23 Where is top talent at top targets choosing to go? 39 1y
+11 Queens Commerce (with 50k Scholarship) vs Western Ivey for Undergrad 17 1y
+4 ***INVESTMENT BANKING TARGET SCHOOLS LIST 2025*** 12 1y
+18 Amherst College (Econ) or Cornell (ILR) 8 1y
0 top 15 schools ranked for nyc ib please! 2 1y
+3 Bocconi Law 5 1y
+6 Baruch Zicklin vs Rutgers RBS 1 1y
+9 Finally Going Back to School, Lost on What to Do from Here 2 1y
0 Edinburgh Finance&Management (4 years) vs UCL Urban Planning& Real Estate (3 years) vs Toronto Rotman (5 years) 3 1y
+6 Bocconi Msc Finance Scholarship Question 3 1y
0 NYC or LA? (Stern vs Marshall UG) 3 1y
+7 HELP!! Williams College or UT Austin (McCombs)? 9 1y
+20 Stanford or Princeton for Undergrad for IB or PE 19 1y
+15 Non-EU | S&T → LBS MFA → London IB/PE? Need honest thoughts on path + school choice 4 1y
+3 Warwick vs. Bocconi with a Master's somewhere afterwards 7 1y
+16 Am I tweaking? (Columbia vs Vanderbilt vs UVA) 7 1y
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0 Middlebury vs Wesleyan 2 1y
+9 Cornell vs Georgia Tech 1 1y
0 Masters in Real Estate vs Masters in Finance 1 1y
+13 UVA McIntire VS UVA Econ 4 1y
+16 Wharton WITG/Harvard Charles River Growth Fund 5 1y
+9 Nomura Summer 2026 Sophomore Internship 2 1y
+14 Alabama vs Baylor 4 1y
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0 M7 Bschool breaking into IB 2 1y
+18 UC Berkeley Haas vs USC Marshall (World Bachelor in Business) 8 1y
0 How would you tier list all of these for NYC IB? all econ major no b-school except umich, uva, upenn, and cornell 3 1y
+29 UCL vs Warwick for undergrad Economics? 10 1y
+3 Duke vs UChicago vs Georgetown vs Northwestern (all econ) vs UMich Ross vs UVA Mcintire 9 1y
+3 Western Ivey vs Waterloo AFM 1 1y
+26 Bocconi Global MFIN (New) vs HEC MIF (Famous) – Which One Wins for IB in EMEA? 9 1y
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+10 Help Me Decide 4 1y
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0 MIT MSRED vs USC MRED 2 1y
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