Dear WSO. I had a few questions about IB chances as a sophomore transfer student. As of now, my top two choices are UCSD and University of Rochester. I will be studying economics. Of the two choices, which is a better choice for IB? & what is the reputation of each school in the finance world? Thank you!
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Both nontargets but Rochester is better overall, and West Coast IB is dominated by USC/UCB/Stanford/CMC. Plus you can go to NYC for coffee chats and networking pretty easily from Rochester.
Rochester is 7 hours by car/train from NYC though. Been there done that
Can’t speak for UCSD but there is a decent amount of Rochester alumni in NYC IB. If you network effectively you can break in despite lack of OCR.
yeah Rochester objectively sucks (as a place to live) and UofR is a decent school but with no OCR. surprisingly there are some heavy hitters who came from UofR back in the day though when Finance was generally easier to break into. Rich Handler CEO of Jefferies, Ram Sundaram GS Partner whose famous for being the highest paid firm employee in 2008, Akbar Rafiq York Credit PM, I’m sure there’s many more if you dig deep
Didn't know that at all! Thank you for your input
stay away from non-target UCs like the plague. actually stay away from UCs in general
second this. transferred from uc Santa Cruz where everyone had a hard-on for big 4 audit. if only they knew about finance...
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What was transferring like? I'm going there this fall and plan on transferring ASAP
Rochester has some alumni in a few banks, and these alumni pull hard for UR kids. They also have a couple of finance and IB clubs that help with recruiting. Besides, Rochester is a top 35 school so even though it has no OCR, it is still a good school overall. I know some guys there who got offers at BB and MM.
Are you a UoR alumni by any chance? or a current student?
I know this is WSO and you're asking about which school will be better for landing a job in banking, but the college experience at UCSD blows away Rochester. IMO either school you need to network your way in but you will have a way better time in san diego than shitty rochester NY
That I agree. My friends at UCSD seem to be having a blast.
Hit up Rich at UofR, CEO of Jefferies
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