Taking master degree(s) to break into IBD?
Hello everyone
I really wish to get some precious opinions and suggestions for my dilemma right now.
I'm an international student, graduated last year from a non-target state school with BS in Economics degree and a 3.81 GPA.
My original plan was to get into IBD in the states, work for a few years and then go back to my home country. But apparently this is not working right now since I can't even find a decent full time job here (not being a STEM sucks).
And in retrospect, I realized I myself made some terrible mistakes along the way while I'm in college. For example, no relevant internship experiences and didn't go out of my way to do networking at all.
Fortunately I took GMAT while I was still in college as a back up plan (700), so I just applied 2 graduate schools.
Now I'm being admitted by Johns Hopkins for their MSF program and still waiting for Rochester. (Do you guys think I underrated myself by applying only 2 "okay" schools?)
My goal is to get into IBD, and the location doesn't matters, but preferably the US.
I'm really confused right now, so what do you guys think I should do?
Should I go to graduate school and then get a job in the big four either in my home country or the US and then break into IBD after I get some working experiences in the finance industry?
Or do you guys think I should take another master program at a target school after I'm done with this one so I can get into IBD directly out of school in the states? (I don't mind doing another master program)
Does CFA matters?
And any other options?
Thanks a lot for reading such a long and silly post, and I really appreciate any of your suggestions :)
I'm not sure about IBD, of course you could make it, but it'd be difficult from those schools, unless you are fine with a boutique. Those programs may place into big 4 advisory though.
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