USC Dornsife Econ/UCLA Econ for West Coast IB - Worth it?

Hey Monkeys, 

I have an opportunity to go into Econ at USC via Dornsife and through UCLA. Unfortunately, due to some circumstances there is absolutely no way I can break into USC's business school or UCLA's Biz-Econ major since it's so fucking competitive for transfer students.

In all honesty, I don't really care about east-coast recruiting and to be in that rat infested shithole of NYC (no offense--just not my bag personally) I'm really only focusing on west-coast IB in places like the bay area or Los Angeles. 

I know it's a big sin to do econ as your major instead of something like business administration or accounting, but what are the chances that I could make it work specifically in regard to west-coast and California recruiting since honestly since I moved here from my Midwest hovel, I never want to leave.

So, I want to ask all of the experienced West Coast monkeys these three questions

  1. How much of a disadvantage am I at doing Econ at these schools?
  2. Would it be better to do Econ at UCLA or Dornsife Economics?
  3. What can I do to mitigate the damage of going econ once I'm in?

Thank you so much for reading my post 3

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either school will give you the same results, none of the competitive ib clubs at either school will accept you since you're a transfer unless you manage to lie through.

being an econ major at either school is fine

 

What year are you transferring in as? Will be tough if already past your sophomore year given recruiting timeline. I did biz econ at UCLA, I remember just having to get through pre-req classes to get into it, nothing made it competitive.

When I was in college USC probably had more resources on campus for recruiting through clubs/alumni/career center. And when recruiting was in the fall USC definitely had an advantage since the process started before UCLA's school year started, so there wasn't much OCR at UCLA. Now that internships start recruiting in the spring of sophomore year I don't think that matters as much. 

Econ is fine as a major, just try to take as many accounting and finance classes as possible to help you with technicals. Econ is relevant enough that I people shouldn't care that you're studying that vs. finance, just have a good GPA.

 

Do ucla lmfao. If you go to usc and don’t get into the investment banking club it’ll be almost impossible to recruit for LA IB because the prof who runs it has connects at every LA bank and pretty much exclusively pushes for the kids that are in her club. If you get into the club you’re chilling, but seems like UCLA is a much safer pick as kids not in their IB workshop place far better than kids not in USC’s IB club.

 
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