Laurier BBA/UWaterloo BMath DD vs Schulich vs Rotman
Canadian hs senior here. Would you say that these programs are similar in terms of ib placement, either at a big 6 on bay or bb on wall street? Thanks in advance.
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Laurier probably has the best placement of those 3 in Canada. For Wall Street/US roles - Go to Laurier, take advantage of co-op and try to land a role at a big 5 for 2nd year. Keep grades high / get one or two decent extra curriculars in and then transfer to Ivey in 3rd year. If you can manage that you will have better work experience than most. At that point goal is to grind/network into one of the places that recruits in the fall (SLP, HLH, etc.). Do your best to leverage contacts with the people who transferred in - there's a number of transfers from Laurier who ended up in the US.
what exactly would be a high gpa for transferring to ivey?
85 minimum average for two years, of course the higher the better. They say 80 plus on the website but the cutoff is 83-84 for people at western (who are given priority) so 85 plus for non western universities.
Is there even a point to that if they get banking second coop though?
Double Degree for sure. Access to both schools' network and just look at how many UW placed on Bay St. FO. Laurier alone, I haven't seen much. But for BB, its gotta be Queen's or Ivey.
i'm based in laurier though, does that make a difference?
Should be OK. Do you get access to WaterlooWorks? I think as long as they see UW DD, you shouldn't be treated that differently when you are applying for your internships. I have a friend who did Laurier-based DD and still managed to land ER.
i'm not exactly sure about waterlooworks. does waterloo have better co-op?
Sorry forgot you were still in HS. Its their job application system. From what I recall, there will be specific jobs posted at each school. E.g. Waterloo gets more technical jobs or FAANG, Laurier will have more business/finance roles, but for something big like IB, they usually post at all schools (even publicly available on their website too).
ah thanks!
If you are Laurier-based then you will only have access to Laurier's co-op system (I forgot what it was called), and you will miss out on the first summer as I believe only Waterloo-based DD do 5 co-ops. That said, Laurier's co-op system has much more typical FO jobs than WaterlooWorks. While Waterloo holds the title for "best co-op program", for banking at least its not that amazing, if you were CS DD, then it would make a much bigger difference as the caliber and quantum of the tech postings on WaterlooWorks way outshine Laurier's.
Bottom line: when looking at the jobs you are interesting in getting into, it doesn't really matter as Laurier will offer the same postings as Waterloo, you'll just have to find your own gig for the first summer (which is hard even with WaterlooWorks)
Also, regarding transferring to Ivey, it'll be much harder to keep up your GPA in the BMath DD than the single Laurier BBA degree as your Waterloo courses will drag down your GPA significantly. You should only really gun for Ivey if you're set on the US opportunities and if that's the case, try to defer taking the hard math courses in your 2nd and 3rd years as much as possible so that take more easy (relative) BBA courses to boost your average
Tbh I would do Schulich or Laurier and then try to transfer to Ivey for third year. A lot of people do that and then place in the US for IB. Even though IB recruiting is now done before Ivey actually starts, once they get the Ivey offer in the Spring they can then easily start to network with the Ivey alumni at the diff firms.
why not rotman?
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