Do I go to a non-target & succeed or mercurial semi-target?

UCLA (pre-business economics)
88% (7 votes)
UMD (finance)
13% (1 vote)
Total votes: 8

Could you have stayed at your IB/consulting firm if you hadn't left for PE

Yes - IB
29% (10 votes)
No - IB
14% (5 votes)
Yes - consulting
20% (7 votes)
No - consulting
3% (1 vote)
N/A - see results
34% (12 votes)
Total votes: 35

What should I do?

Keep Current Role and Keep Searching for other Credit Role
40% (2 votes)
Take FP&A Role
60% (3 votes)
Total votes: 5

Which Intership?

Corporate Accounting
10% (1 vote)
PE Analyst
50% (5 votes)
FDP
40% (4 votes)
Total votes: 10

Which university should I attend?

Harvard
75% (94 votes)
Yale
13% (17 votes)
Princeton
12% (15 votes)
Total votes: 126

Which University to apply for?

Cranfield
0% (0 votes)
Durham
33% (2 votes)
Lancaster
0% (0 votes)
Henley/Readings
33% (2 votes)
Nottingham
0% (0 votes)
Glasgow
0% (0 votes)
Bath
17% (1 vote)
Bristol
17% (1 vote)
Exter
0% (0 votes)
Birmingham
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 6

?

Rice Virani
36% (4 votes)
McCombs BHP
64% (7 votes)
Total votes: 11

Which one?

Rice
39% (15 votes)
UVA
61% (23 votes)
Total votes: 38

Which schools

Oxbridge
89% (34 votes)
Respected U.S. state school
11% (4 votes)
Total votes: 38

should I write "need sponsorship"?

yes
50% (3 votes)
no
50% (3 votes)
Total votes: 6

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