<p>Banks tend to select a diverse group of students for each analyst class in both racial profile as well as field of academic study. Analyst classes tend to consist of people ranging from musicians to physicists to financiers, and technically everybody has a shot.</p>
<p>I’m completely unfamiliar with UCLA’s programs but I know it’s respected at investment banks and probably has recruiters from bulge brackets. If you do well in chemistry and can demonstrate you have a passion for finance, you will most likely be able to land a position in banking. That’s just my two cents though. I’m not sure how West Coast recruitment operates.</p>