In-State Berkeley vs Wharton Undergrad

tristatecoog
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:50:04 +0000

Does a $150K+ family income with two other siblings in college preclude you from non-loan financial aid from Wharton? Both would be awesome picks. Run the EFC for UPenn and see if they expect your family to be full pay. Unless you already have a fabulous entrepreneurial idea, you’ll make plenty of $$ in banking to fund your idea. UCB will definitely lead to cool IB jobs in the Bay Area and LA (bit harder elsewhere) plus access to top corporate finance jobs.

You can major in anything at Penn and go into IB but it helps to go to Wharton and then it helps further to have top grades and internships. I worked at a top bulge bracket firm in NYC that had a recruiter dedicated to recruiting Wharton. Then it had a couple others recruiting other schools. For the Bay Area, they surely go to Stanford (multiple majors) and UCB.

There’s are also consulting jobs which give you a great overview of operations for entrepreneurial ideas. You can certainly major in other disciplines for consulting and they often fund an MBA if you want to go that route.