My Huntsman Experience

Scott Wilcox, Economics, Finance, Statistics ‘18

My Huntsman experience has been nothing short of incredible. Inside the classroom, I have learned from professors worthy of the most elite business schools in the world, including Paul Fjeldsted, Ben Blau, and TJ Bond. Outside of the classroom, I have experienced the world, including a month-long experience in Asia, visiting universities and companies in Vietnam, Thailand, China, and Hong Kong. As a member of Huntsman Scholars, I spent 10 days in London studying financial markets at companies like Bloomberg, Deloitte, and IBM. These experiences helped me develop a global vision of the world’s business and economic network, and to see the diversity of the world’s workplaces.

Because of this education, I was offered a summer internship with Strata Fund Solutions, an investment services firm. This internship allowed me to gain real world experience in accounting and finance. I subsequently applied for and was offered an internship in the risk management summer program with J.P. Morgan in New York City. Of the eight interns on my team, I was the only one who did not come from an ivy-league school.

At J.P. Morgan, I rubbed shoulders with some of the brightest finance professionals in the world, working on a high-exposure project affecting the company’s work with expected credit losses. I was given a return offer and will be rejoining my team in New York after I graduate in December.

Because of my experience at the Huntsman School of Business, I can compete with the best. I have learned that my education at Huntsman is no less in value than an education offered at Harvard or Yale.

Emily Howe, Accounting ‘18

On my eighteenth birthday, as a senior in high school, I sat and listened to Jon Huntsman’s dream for the Huntsman School of Business at the Vision2020: Journey to the Top Tier conference. Right then and there, I decided where I was going to college. Nearly five years later, I look back at that moment as monumental. They say you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. For me, those five people include incredible professors, classmates, colleagues, and mentors. I truly am who I am today because of their dedication, patience, generosity, and friendship. Ultimately, it was their belief in what I could accomplish and who I could become that pushed me through challenging coursework and life’s inherent difficulties. My first real experience outside of the United States was through the Huntsman School and ingrained in me a love for people of different cultures. I sat in the Bodlien Library at Oxford and on the dirt floors of homes in the Philippines. These transformative opportunities would not have been possible without the financial support of generous donors. My experiences, coupled with help from the outstanding accounting program and faculty, also assisted in my internship and full-time offer with KPMG as an audit professional in the Salt Lake City office. My Huntsman experience provided me with valuable professional skills and abilities that I promise to use to influence positive change throughout my career. More importantly, however, my Huntsman experience molded me into the woman I am today.