Of the four schools, Chicago will offer her the best opportunity for consulting. Chicago has traditionally offered a very analytic Economics major that prepared students for grad schools and PHD's. It is very math intensive. A few years ago, Chicago added a Business Economics major which tones down the math requirements. The placement from Chicago's econ program is excellent. I do not know how the business economics places.
Notre Dame would be a tie with Chicago if she got into the Mendoza School of Business. Placement as an undergraduate from Mendoza to IB and consulting is as good as any undergraduate college in the country. If she is going Economics from ND CLAS, placement from what I understand is not nearly as strong as coming from Mendoza.
Of the other two, assuming she got into the business school, Michigan would would probably offer better placement than UNC as they tend to get recruited to a wider geographical area.
A couple of other comments:
- Chicago has a very unique culture. The volume of busy work is very high as the school is not keen on having students leave campus that often, so the solution is to overwork students so they are doing PSETS on Friday night instead of clubbing or house parties. We know multiple kids who went to Chicago, and they have the same kinds of comments about the workload.
- Notre Dame probably has the most tight knit ground of students, and the alumni network is very strong. Some of that is partly due to the fact that 80% of the school is Catholic, but ND grads traditionally look out for each other moreso than graduates of other programs. They also have great placement into Chicago and NYC.
- Whatever school she attends, she should not shy away from math and analytics classes. Employers want to see these kinds of classes on the CV. In fact, being a math major might be a better path to consulting/IB than economics.
- Try Wall Street Oasis for some more opinions.
Notre Dame would be a tie with Chicago if she got into the Mendoza School of Business. Placement as an undergraduate from Mendoza to IB and consulting is as good as any undergraduate college in the country. If she is going Economics from ND CLAS, placement from what I understand is not nearly as strong as coming from Mendoza.
Of the other two, assuming she got into the business school, Michigan would would probably offer better placement than UNC as they tend to get recruited to a wider geographical area.
A couple of other comments:
- Chicago has a very unique culture. The volume of busy work is very high as the school is not keen on having students leave campus that often, so the solution is to overwork students so they are doing PSETS on Friday night instead of clubbing or house parties. We know multiple kids who went to Chicago, and they have the same kinds of comments about the workload.
- Notre Dame probably has the most tight knit ground of students, and the alumni network is very strong. Some of that is partly due to the fact that 80% of the school is Catholic, but ND grads traditionally look out for each other moreso than graduates of other programs. They also have great placement into Chicago and NYC.
- Whatever school she attends, she should not shy away from math and analytics classes. Employers want to see these kinds of classes on the CV. In fact, being a math major might be a better path to consulting/IB than economics.
- Try Wall Street Oasis for some more opinions.
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