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Yash Bansal

Jun 8, 2026

BenHOST
0:21
You know, where'd you grow up? How did you end up at University of Illinois? And what is your career goal after school?
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Yeah.
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Um, so I'm born and raised, um, in the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly in Fremont and Dublin, California.
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So I would say I got really involved in the stock market throughout high school.
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And so that kind of, um, pushed me towards majoring in, like, a business field, particularly finance.
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And out of the schools that I got into, the University of Illinois had the best structured business program that wasn't just econ or making me go to, like, the, the LAS.
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So I wanted a structured business school with more resources and, um, ultimately, like, a smaller class where, you know, I can make some more meaningful bonds with professors, with other students, and overall, just get that, um, actual business school education with finance classes and, like, accounting classes instead of econ.

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BenHOST
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most people have to take it two, two to three times is, is what-

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