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[quote=Anonymous]Out of all my friends at top LACs/ivies, the person I am most jealous of is a friend from high school who went into Accounting at a decent state school. They weren't the smartest, or even close to it, of the people I know, but they could walk into any internship, since Accounting schools tend to have direct pipelines into top organizations. She now has an extremely enviable finance position at a tech company we all use, and she got it, because they needed someone who knew finance AND accounting.

Sure, at a prestigious college you can go into IB and Consulting, but the work is pretty miserable and actually getting to those steps in the first place is not only competitive but a headache of "industry knowledge" you are expected to know and frankly the field is very sexist. If you are interested in like economics research or the rat race of IB, there's not much incentive to these top programs compared to attending a university with a solid pipeline to accounting organizations and doing the career transitions while you are getting paid at your firm.[/quote]

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