Transferring to a Target School - Fairly selective

I'm trying to transfer to a target school for investment banking from a competitive public university. I've looked over some of the older threads about transferring, and I'd really appreciate some feedback from anyone who's successfully managed to transfer to a target school. Some of the schools I have in mind include Wharton, Columbia, Duke, and Georgetown. I realize these schools are fairly selective, but I think I have the qualifications (highest-ranked high school GPA, good EC's, 3.8+ college GPA at a competitive university). Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

 
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If you attend a competitive, public university you should have no problem breaking into IB. If you have not already, do a linkedin search for your alma mater at banks you are interested in, and it will give you a pretty good idea of your school's presence on the street. Granted transferring to a target will increase your chances, I would definitely look into the increase in tuition costs you may face, as well as how much stronger the target school's presence is on the street. You will be surprised -- if you know your stuff and are willing to network, you have a pretty strong shot of being able to break into a strong IB. I attended a large, public university and know a lot of people who have made it to IB sheerly through using the alumni pipeline and knowing their shit.

 

Really appreciate your feedback, Myron. I've been doing well as far as getting involved on campus, and I'll take a closer look at our alumni network, but I thought I'd try to transfer anyway.

 

I finished a year at a solid public university and ended up transferring to a top 15 target, around some of the schools you mentioned.

I'd say OCR alone makes the hassle and time of transferring worth it.

You should follow the above advice on finding alumni on LinkedIn to see if transferring is worth the increase in tuition, since I'm guessing a public school in the range you gave should have substantial resources for IB recruiting.

Feel free to PM

 

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I'm probably missing a bunch and the list includes schools without undergraduate business programs, but in no particular order...

Umich (Ross), UPenn (Wharton), MIT (Sloan), Cornell (AEM), Yale, Dartmouth, Georgetown, UVA and Duke. Can't think of any others at the moment.

 

..east coast-->nyc..columbia. ..suny ..queens college ..i graduated from the school of hard knocks.

--obviously u know that the suny schools/queens are not targets.

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top schools that tend to be somewhat transfer friendly: UNC (kenan-flagler), UVA (mcintire), michigan (ross), cornell (aem)

would also try: wash u (olin), nyu (stern), ucla (anderson), cal (haas)

also obviously doesnt hurt to apply to the rest of the ivies but only penn/cornell have bschools and most of the ivies tend not to be transfer friendly

 

Maybe if you give us some more background in terms of your grades, EC's, and what you want out of school, we will be better able to suggest schools that fit the profile.

 

So I have a 3.81 right now and if I continue on the same path I am on now I am likely to 4.0 or 3.9 all of the classes I am in right now. I have done a year abroad and speak Hungarian, I am intending to minor in Russian (I'm working through the first year now) with a Major in Accounting or Finance. I Have worked every summer since 7th grade full time (except those first few years) I have worked elsewhere, but that is my main accomplishment. I have done a case competition fully and the first round of a Russell Investments Case Competition. I am an active member in my schools finance club and am in a fraternity. Are there any other areas that might help to know or that I may have skipped?

I'm on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.
 

Try for university of Michigan Ann Arbor if you can, great school. Cornell is a good one too especially for computer science or engineering disciplines. They open a lot of doors.

 

it really depends on what target school you are applying to and the current school you are at now. I had two friends who transferred to stern from state schools with similiar GPAs and SATs

 

This isn't really the place to get advice on college admissions, but GPA is by far the biggest factor in transfer admissions.

If you're asking whether it's a good idea, then your answer is that it probably is.

 

Yeah SAT score will matter less as a transfer, since they don't have to factor your SAT score into their released averages.

I've heard Cornell is pretty transfer friendly so I would look to there.

 

If you need to transfer schools to get into ibanking that means you cannot cut it anyways in this business. I do not care what anyone says, but you can get into ibanking from whatever school your from

 

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