Please Help!! My situation is described below

I am enrolled to go to Miami (OH) next year as an undergraduate and I really want to be an investment banker on Wall Street. If I stay at Miami (OH) i feel like my chances of accomplishing my dream are slim to none. Hence, I am considering trying to transfer to Indiana University after 1 year. The only problem with this is that I am out of state so I would be 120K in debt.If I transfer to Indiana and become an Investment Banker then would I still need an MBA at some point? Would I just be able to make it as an Investment Banker without the MBA? Do you think that transferring to Indiana is worth 120K in debt?

 

Going to Indiana will not guarantee the job you want. I certainly would not bet $120K on it. Not even half that.

Go to Miami, get epic grades freshman year, see if you can transfer to an Ivy, then transfer there.

in it 2 win it
 

How do you know your chances would be "slim to none" at Miami-OH? Is there some metric that has been put out that definitively states that, or is that your half-ass assumption? 120k is a lot of dough so I'd say to stick it out at Miami and start building a network from the beginning.

"Yes. Money has been a little bit tight lately, but at the end of my life, when I'm sitting on my yacht, am I gonna be thinking about how much money I have? No. I'm gonna be thinking about how many friends I have and my children and my comedy albums."
 

Transferring to Indiana is far from friendly. It really isn't easy at all. Have to apply to Kelley and there are a bunch of requirements that you have to do. I don't think you should do it, you could transfer to an ivy easier than Indiana. It's not a problem of getting in really, it's just the fact that the requirements are so ridiculous.

Also Miami Ohio is a good school anyways, you'd probably be ok there if you worked your ass off.

 

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