The College Thread
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TLS will be your biggest help if you plan to go for your JD, every LSAT guide, book and practice test is available on Then Pirate Bay, all public libraries have the books as well, and you can get the for cheap for sure from various bookstores and online.
The T-20 schools (Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Duke, UChicago, NYU, Cornell, UVA, Georgetown, UC-Berkeley, Columbia, UT-Austin, UCLA, UMich, Cornell, UPenn, Emory, Vanderbilt, Arizona State University, Notre Dame, and UMinn) should all also have good Information Science grab programs, and those are the schools (along with Howard) that you should be looking toward for the JD as they have the best employment scores. Is information science more connected to library science or information technology?
I can honestly go both ways. That's my issue now, I can't decide
I have an interview with a small CPA firm next week, and several career fairs to go to in the next 3 months. If I don't get an offer from one of these places, it might be the biggest L I've taken yet.
How it go
How it go
I got an offer about 4 hours after the interview. The package looks real good, but I haven't accepted yet. I was invited to a summer program at a national firm next week, so I was going to make my decision shortly after.
I'm feeling pretty great right now!
SJUGrad summed it up.
Accounting is a degree that can take you many places. Finance can also take you several places too. The big differences come to what school you are attending and what your grades are.
Without high grades, you are limiting your options for internships and full time work post college.
With Accounting, you can go to any accredited school where firms recruit and be good (with a solid GPA, good extracurriculars, and adequate interview skills).
Finance (more particularly investment banking) you are going to have to go to a Ivy League school (or Top 15) and have everything mentioned in the preceding paragraph to have a shot.
You can have make a good amount of money in due time working your way up in public or working in public then jumping to industry, but that will take some time.
High Finance you can make stupid good money immediately, but beware of the hours. Actually, both careers have crazy hours but that's what it takes if you want to make it in these fields.
What year are you? Or are you just starting college?
Yeah I just started college, I'm a freshman at Hampton University.
Okay. You have lots of time (Hampton is a nice school, I wish I could of went there).
There is a lot to adjust to by starting college. I would use your freshman year to research types of careers you want while maintaining high grades in your general education courses. Since it looks like you are going to get a business degree either way, I would look at the classes you have to take for each major and start thinking about how and in what order you are going to start taking courses for the rest of your time in college. You won't have anything set in concrete yet but creating a schedule for yourself (and having a alternative plan if it ends up not working) will set you on course. The Big 4 accounting firms (Deloitte, KPMG, EY, and PwC) seem to recruit at Hampton so if you go the accounting route it will do you good to become familiar with how campus recruiting works.
There is much more I could tell you about this, but there is already an excellent guide in the accounting sub on Reddit. I'll give you the direct guide here:
The Public Accounting Recruiting Guide
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IRh3QWcObQc_ddflJdngeI4GBlunSuePLnSPizfbKb4/edit
I have less knowledge for finance recruiting, but most of my advice still applies. Check with your school's career services on companies that recruit there.
