What % of your classmates changed majors away from engineering?

ratroll
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:09:43 +0000

A real, real question, is how many of those students knew what IBanking was, what it involved, how to get into the field, etc? I am not joking. Look, I’m not ragging on the career (its awesome… if you can break into it), but outside of CC, people working in finance, and Ivy-league students, very few people know what IBanking is – including engineering students in highly ranked state universities. The vast majority of them probably thought that landing a job with Google, Apple, or Microsoft is the ultimate first job. Mentioning Goldman Sachs would get a blank stare from the 22 year olds. Tell people you want to be an investment banker and most people will think of a personal banker sitting behind a table at their neighborhood WaMu.