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0 incoming first year at HBS - AMA 2 1y
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+157 Q&A: Recent Columbia Business School grad that went to a HF after school 48 1y
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+9 IB/AM from Swiss university? 1 1y
+38 Bocconi vs. UCL for London 24 1y
0 Free Master's from Alabama or UNC Chapel Hill In-state 1 1y
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0 High School Senior Looking for Summer Internship 1 1y
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+6 Singapore Management University As An International Student 8 1y
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+4 berkeley vs rice vs washu vs emory vs umich 8 1y
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+9 Michigan Ross vs WashU BUCS 5 1y
+7 How is UChicago for Quant? 10 1y
0 Baruch - MS Finance 1 1y
+16 LSE vs SSE (undergrad) 3 1y
+1 Cornell Business School 2 1y
+10 UNC Kenan-Flagler vs USC Marshall vs NYU Stern for undergrad 3 1y
+49 Is Brown University a Target School? 28 1y
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+9 Notre Dame (Finance) vs Cornell (Hotel) 3 1y
+1 Cambridge🇬🇧 vs Columbia JTS program🇺🇸 for finance/consulting? 1 1y
+17 LSE BSc Finance vs. BSc Accounting & Finance – Which Is Better for Europe Finance Careers? 6 1y
0 Is ESSEC MiF target for IB in London? 2 1y
+14 Torn Between Stanford and LSE – Int’l Student Seeking Finance Career in US & Europe 4 1y
+9 IU Kelley or OSU Fisher (undergrad) 2 1y
+5 University of Chicago - Quant or IB? 5 1y
+7 Warwick or Bayes? (Norwegian student) 6 1y
+9 Is it worth transferring schools for IB? (Canada) 2 1y
+14 wall street reputation of Columbia GS- cash cow or real ivy? 4 1y
+19 Western Ivey vs. UCLA for IB/PE? 6 1y
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+43 Harvard, Yale, or Princeton (Undergrad)? 26 1y
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0 Vanderbilt MSF or HF BO 1 1y
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0 Bocconi, UCL,LSE, Warwick? 2 1y
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0 Best University for IB 2 1y
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0 Liberty University Business admin (finance) 1 1y
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