Thank you!
The reason I talk about Microsoft is because it is one of the major employers in the area.
I cannot talk about IB in Seattle because it has not exist since WaMu went out of business in 2009 (or 8?).
AFAIK, UW Seattle de-facto locks 80% of kids into corporate finance with few fighting tooth and nail to get into anything else. As I understand, both IU and UF have more options due to the variety of companies in regions they have close connections with.
My daughter is 17, I don’t know what she’ll want to do specifically in a couple of years. Maybe she’ll decide that corporate finance is her dream, but now she read about IB and that it is the most interesting area of finance.
Had she decided to go into accounting, UW would be a no-brainer.
The whole finance education is bizarre to me - workshops that aren’t just a normal part of the major, etc. IBW has a rather non-deterministic admission criteria vs more deterministic MSF. I agree that schools are peers in general and I have no illusion of them competing with UPenn, hence the question - how much these nuances with clusbs etc matter really?
Even the whole honors college thing. At IU it doesn’t give priority registration. Smaller classes typically are gen ed ones, as I understand. Business honors require extra admission later during the year, and BH classes are smaller. Hutton is the university honors with requirements for a minor from another area of study etc.
My older daughter did honors college at Purdue and loved it but it didn’t affect her CS classes (her major) and Linguistics classes (her second major) at all. She had early registration, a better dorm her first year, some awesome classes not related to her major, an advisor she wasn’t excited about, and required quite a bit of time for her honors thesis which was fun but required rigorous time management. I guess it helped with the grad school but not a single employer cared about it during her internship interviews, nor for her peers who didn’t do university honors.