+9 HELP!!! College Decision Please 4 4y
+10 Choice of university/college for an IB/PE/HF career 4 4y
+36 Georgetown (Non-MSB) vs. Notre Dame (Non-Mendoza) 17 4y
+10 Best New Club/Society To Start At University To Increase Chances of IB Job 2 4y
+104 New York School of Finance - Thoughts? 133 4y
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+108 Does the CFA® help you get into Business School? 80 4y
+6 UCONN VS BARUCH undergrad 6 4y
+25 Georgetown MSB MSF Exit Opps 5 4y
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+12 HYP undergrad experience 1 4y
+9 Fairfield University For IB 1 4y
+5 Thinking about MBA 9 4y
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+12 Help me choose an undergraduate school 7 4y
+12 BU vs Western Ivey 8 4y
+10 Choice of university/college for an IB/PE/HF career 4 4y
+6 How good is Columbia MSFE? 1 4y
+17 Mccombs or Stern for undergrad? 13 4y
+4 JHU vs Northwestern vs Ross vs UT BHP vs McIntire vs Haas 1 4y
0 Pace or Syracuse University? 1 4y
+11 Deleted deleted 2 4y
+2 Wash u Olin vs UVA McIntyre vs UMich Ross undergrad 3 4y
+5 UChicago vs Georgetown vs Ross vs NYU Stern 8 4y
0 Masters in Data Science - Northwestern's SPS vs. Harvard's Extension School? 1 4y
0 Looking for NYU Gramercy Green Roommate 1 4y
+36 Northeastern vs BU vs Fordham vs IU 29 4y
+18 University of Miami vs Northeastern vs University of Delaware 14 4y
+9 Value of Undergraduate Business Degree 1 4y
+7 (Current student here) How difficult would it be for a foreigner (Non-Singaporean) studying at Wharton to break into Singapore PE after a stint at US IB with a BB? 16 4y
+3 School Choice 1 4y
+9 IBD Post MBA Associate - Too Old? Advice please 4 4y
+12 Stanford vs Wharton Undergrad 12 4y
+6 NYU MA in Economics vs. Johns Hopkins MS in Applied Economics 6 4y
+12 Boston University 1 4y
+10 Carlson school of management Undergrad 1 4y
0 Yale moves to M7? Goodbye CBS 13 4y
+15 Texas A&M, Penn State, or IU 3 4y
+11 Texas A&M, Penn State, or IU 1 4y
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+6 Chances at Top MFin - profile review 1 4y
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+17 Is Cornell or Northwestern undergrad better for IB? 9 4y
+14 Yale Economics + Data Science or Columbia Financial Engineering 30 4y
+12 Oxford University or US Ivy Colleges 6 4y
+9 Concordia (JMSB) MBA or Baruch MS Finance 1 4y
0 UG Caroll/Marshall/Kelley/Georgetown 1 4y
+11 Possible to go from a non-target (Colby/Bates/Middlebury) as international to IB/Consulting? 3 4y
+108 Canadian vs USA vs International unis 56 4y
+3 Thoughts on Boston College? 1 4y
+1 HELP - Undergrad College Choices 1 4y
+153 Cornell Dyson vs. Dartmouth for Undergrad 55 4y
+18 120K in loans for Columbia Undergrad? 12 4y
+27 IU Kelley vs Boston College (Carroll) 19 4y
0 BC Carrol School of Management VS IU Kelley undergrad for IB 1 4y
+9 What is the best university for investment banking? 1 4y
+6 Justifying an NYU Stern tuition without IB 1 4y
+3 Delete 1 4y
+9 Please rank - UMich LSA, BU Questrom, IU Kelley, NEU D'amore-mckim 8 4y
+12 Which schools to attend? 1 4y
+17 Michigan LSA, uMiami, Fordham, Penn State, uConn for Investment Banking 3 4y
+12 IB at Boston University in 2022 1 4y
+3 Exchange Semester MSc 1 4y
0 Any thoughts on HBS's yield drop (82%) vs GSBs yield increase (94%) 2 4y
+17 Advise For A Non-Target School Student 3 4y
+9 Fordham Gabelli Lincoln Center vs University of Florida 4 4y
+18 McGill or Binghamton 6 4y
+9 How should I approach this? 2 4y
+46 professional mentor and alum. trying to discourage me from applying to NYU MSRE?? 14 4y
+300 Canadian Target Schools Ranked By Detailed Global Placement Data 127 4y
+24 Rejected from all schools but one... 10 4y
+17 Columbia SPS Applied Analytics vs. Ross MBA vs. UNC MBA vs. USC MBA 4 4y
+9 My March (target school) Madness Bracket 1 4y
+6 Is it possible to work in IB while doing PT MBA 13 4y
+9 Advice for a High School Senior, 1 4y
+14 Brilliant Idea - Seperate Universities Into 2 Categories 14 4y
+467 UChicago, Cornell, Holy Cross, Johns Hopkins, or Williams for Wall Street? 177 4y
+6 Which school should I go to if I want to become an investment banker? 1 4y
+8 Notre Dame Mendoza vs Georgetown McDonough for undergrad 7 4y
+16 MBA for healthcare / non-finance opportunities (Haas, NYU, CBS) 8 4y
+9 UCLA Anderson MBA ($70k Scholarship) vs. LBS and INSEAD 1 4y
+15 IB hopeful admitted @ Darden & Stern - Reapply or Enroll? 3 4y
+9 MS Accounting and Fundamental Analysis at Columbia Business School 1 4y
+16 LBS MFA vs Oxford MFE 8 4y
+9 Which MBA should I consider given my GPA? 1 4y
+11 Living the good life for now; when do I need to uptier to a "prestigious" bank? 4 4y
+9 How to list hybrid in-person/online MBA on resume? (JHU) 5 4y
+9 RE on the side as a DCM guy? 1 4y
+9 Real Estate on the side as a DCM guy? 1 4y
+72 What was the point of going to Ivy League? 48 4y
0 U Miami undergrad 2 4y
+16 How to break into commercial real estate without the fluff 2 4y
+26 Undergrad: UVA McIntire vs Cornell Dyson 9 4y
+28 Yale vs. Harvard (Undergrad) 14 4y
+10 Law/Consulting to Private Equity 3 4y
+10 Learning the ropes, Part 1 - Target Schools 7 4y
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