UF vs Wisco for IB
I am a senior looking to commit to college, who places better in IB Wisconsin at madison or UF?
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If you go to UF, make sure to apply for the MSF program.
UW has a solid alumni base at most banks on the street. It's not extremely large like targets, but we do have people scattered all over. If you get into their investment banking club, you should have a good shot at placing. Can't speak to UF
How tough is it to get into the IBC at wisco?
It's like a 15% acceptance rate, but if you really want banking, it should be an easy hurdle to get in. Feel free to pm me. Happy to give you more detailed answers and specifics about UW
PM and I’d be happy to talk about UF prospects.
Have reached my daily limit on PM. I am interested in UF, but worried their IB placement isn't at strong at NY banks as Wisco. Would love to connect
No worries, I think for most kids it’ll be marginally harder from UF, but UF is overall the better school (your interests may change and UF is probably better across most degree programs and has a vibrant social scene and athletics if that interests you) and probably way more fun (unless you love Midwestern cold and depression around finals season).
If you’re a diverse candidate, the people who facilitate the MSF program at UF are very knowledgeable about early insight/diversity programs and keep students abreast of opportunities as they arise for the most part. I know a handful of people who have gotten offers as freshmen with great shops out of diversity programs before even applying to the MSF program. The student investment clubs do basically the same and really keep you in the loop with recruiting opportunities. Plenty of kids land IB roles from UF, and the MSF program has very strong placements. It’s got an acceptance rate of around ~20%, given that the directors pretty much only select kids from their feeder program (exploring financial economics), which had about 150 kids this year. If you aren’t diverse, you’ll have your work cut out for you (at either school), but plenty of non-diverse candidates have gotten placement out of the MSF program.
If you do end up picking UF, sign up for EFE as soon as possible (just Google “UF exploring financial economics” and follow the links to a signup form) and be engaged from day one. You face very long odds of getting into the program if you don’t have a strong relationship with the directors. As you continue deciding, feel free to PM me with questions. Ultimately, I think the proportion of kids who want to go into IB is smaller at UF than UW (I could be totally wrong about that) and most kids that put in the requisite work end up getting at least a solid MM role, I know RBC and UBS specifically like UF kids. Anecdotally, a buddy told me some more top firms are starting to take kids from UF seriously since the MSF program has churned out good placements and preps you very well for IB/FO roles. He named some pretty sick firms that are looking to apparently start OCR at UF, but I'll believe it when I see it. Always happy to help.
Gave some more color on that big reply, might be worth checking if anything raises or answers questions.
Have definitely come across more Wisco grads working in NYC area. I'm sure Midwest placement also strong too. UF feels tougher to me all else equal, except maybe in Southern regional offices.
UW will be able to place you anywhere in the Midwest, especially MM's.
What about NYC banks?
Honestly I don't have much of an idea. Most of my networking and research has been midwest-based so I can't really inform on NYC. Worst case is you could easily place in a Chicago office and transfer offices down the road.
You can look up the MSF website for UF and see where every person went in each class - really strong placement overall, including in NYC. Strong relationships and numerous placements with Wells and SunTrust / Truist each year and placements into Goldman, Evercore and others.
UWisc in general has marginally better placement but if you believe you can get into UF's MSF program (basically corollary to IU's IBW program) in your sophomore year then that's a better option overall. MSF has some solid placement especially to Evercore.
So if I understand correctly, Wisco is a little better then UF generally, but the MSF program at uf is much better then wisco?
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