Recruit from Indiana University or transfer to better school?

Recently rejected from the investment banking workshop program at IU, confident in my technical & networking skills to recruit for banking still. It will be much harder to recruit for SA position if i'm not in the program at IU but if I transfer to a better school, I'll miss the window to recruit for SA. I have a pretty good chance for transferring to ivy (legacy), or any other target/semi-target. Should I try to recruit from IU or just transfer and recruit FT in my junior year? 

 

Indiana is such a fun school and it definitely seems like you can still break in easily. Focus on getting a winter/spring boutique IB internship to supplement your competitive candidacy. I think it would be such a shame if you are like 30 and you look back and you transferred from easily top 5 fun school in U.S to simply get a job when you could have gotten it from Indiana anyway. 

 

I also go to IU and in a top workshop think GlobalSales/SportsIndustry/BusinessOperations, lucky for you there are new accounting workshops for you to apply to. PM me for referrals.

 
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If you have a legacy why did you end up coming to IU Kelley? Sounds like an L to me, don't bother to try transferring if you couldn't get in the first time.

 

Yeah sorry I don’t think your Ivy legacy transfer is a guarantee if your daddy didn’t fork over enough money the first time around. Unless he came to his senses and bought Yale a building in the meantime, I don’t see how this transfer is going to work (which tbf I probably would consider if that’s the only way I could prevent my kid from graduating from IU with a Princeton legacy or something. But $2mil is my limit for my kid regardless of how dumb/smart they are. Any more and I’d just gift them the cash and they’d probably benefit from that more).

 

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