I am a senior in high school and I have gotten into all these schools. My goal is to go into IB and I want to live in New York or Chicago. Which of these schools would provide the most opportunity?
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I would say Indiana's IB workshop would place the best, but I would go to Tulane (if you got a scholarship) as you don't need to risk getting into a workshop to place decently. If you want the risk of the workshop, it may be worth it cuz it would place in better places than Tulane.
I would be paying full price for Tulane and it is very expensive. Does that make Kelley a better choice?
Yes.
Yea then I'd go Kelley
IU Kelley > Harvard
This ^ Harvard doesn’t have the IB workshop
I know kelley gets memed on all the time here, but our alumni are incredibly generous. Sent a cold email a couple of months ago to a VP and spoke with him just once for 20 min. He then got me a referral and first round in less than a week to a firm that the kids here would sell both their nuts for
Is it possible to get a good IB job from Kelley without doing the IB workshop?
Absolutely - there are about a handful each year that pull it off. That said, when you network with alumni at firms, they will often ask why you weren't in the workshop. Getting into the workshop isn't hard as long as you're committed to banking though. Meet the GPA cutoff (3.7+ is solid), network with current members of the workshop, and do well in the interviews. Anyone who can get into banking without the workshop can get into the workshop.
Bump
Wisconsin's IB club is nothing close to IB workshop, but still places very well in Chicago and NY.
I went to Kelley (I'm a bit biased) and did IB for a few years.
Short answer: Kelley has a great IB alumni network and places the best out of the three.
Long answer: You're a senior in high school... You have a lot of time between now and getting a job, and you probably haven't been exposed to IB or any other field of business much yet, so it's definitely worth exploring what the schools have to offer- About 80% of freshman at IU come in has Finance majors, and only about 25% actually graduate with Finance as a major, mostly because they find other passions. If you're hoping to get into IB because you want to make money or prestige, that's great but a terrible reason to do IB. Take the time over the summer to learn about what's out there and gain some non-business experiences that will make you not like every other candidate.
Feel free to PM me with any questions you have
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