Current High School Senior. Where should I go to school to break into banking/finance?
So I am a high school senior from California and I have received all of my college decisions. I applied economics for most schools but now I am realizing I want to do finance/banking instead so I will probably try to transfer later on (which may affect things).
My family makes around 220k a year but fafsa set my efc as 114k somehow so I did not get aid from any universities. Ill be paying full tuition to wherever I go. My family would be able to make it it happen with any school with close to no debt due to familial wealth but just because you can doesn't mean you should.
I am a huge skateboarder and snowboarder so being able to snowboard in college would be great. You can skate anywhere tho so its kinda irrelevant. I am looking for a school with great academics and prestige/ good internship/job opportunities./ cool location/ great social life but not in the typical frat party way.
Also strength of econ program is a factor because I might not be able to transfer to business.
Anyway hear are my options atm
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McGill University faculty of arts
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I really like McGill because Montreal seems like a sick city and McGill is really academically focused and prestigious.
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I would be paying around 30-35k per year
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Boston University College of General Studies
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I like Boston a lot but I was accepted into the College of General Studies program which is cool because I can declare a school later on but it kinda seems like a cash grab from BU
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I would be paying nearly 80k a year.
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U Washington Seattle Pre Social Studies.
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I just visited last week and it seemed pretty dope but I didn't fall in love.
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I would be paying nearly 60k a year
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I do not really know too much about this school but it seems a bit preppy I'm not sure.
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I would be paying nearly 80k a year.
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UBC faculty of arts
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another Canadian school. It seems cool but I do not like it as much as Mcgill
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I think tuition is comparable to McGill.
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U Wisconsin Madison economics
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madison just doesn't appeal to me like other schools I got into but its a good school academically. Maybe a bit too party-school-esque for my liking.
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around 60k a year
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Cal poly SLO business admin
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Everyone from my school goes there. It seems ok but also a very conservative choice on my part.
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25k a year or something like that.
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UCSC global econ
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Same vibe as cal poly
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40k a year
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UCD Undecided
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Same as above
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Davis is probably the worst location though.
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What do you guys think? I think McGill is my best bet due to the price but I am not sure. Ive heard getting jobs in the US isn't that easy but I may be wrong. I also heard its very difficult to transfer to bcom. I am ready to work my ass off!
BU is not worth 80k imo
Would probably go with USC. Solid feeder to west coast finance, but I'm not sure about transferring from there to Marshall (the business school). I was pretty sure you couldn't snowboard in sunny southern California, but then I looked it up, and turns out there are some spots for that. You'll have no problem skateboarding in a city like LA. At least to an outsider, being a skateboarding, vegan hippie is kind of the vibe LA gives off. In terms of the other stuff, USC has good academics and pretty good prestige. LA probably has good internship/job opps, I would argue that it's a pretty fucking cool place with a good social scene, regardless of what you're into.
-Signed, a Rutgers kid with no relations to USC or any of these schools.
UCSC*
I appreciate the advice though!
Nah bro disregard everything I said then, UC Santa Cruz is shit. My bad, I read that wrong.
UCSC is UC Santa Cruz
These are all shit. Go to the one that has historically the highest transfer rate to a target. Alternatively, go to CC for a year and transfer to a california target (UCLA/USC/Berkeley) but stay an extra year - that way you enter in as essentially a freshman and have the necessary time to prepare for recruiting. Have seen multiple people do this and land amazing offers by full time.
Feel like the best of these are BU or the transfer route mentioned above
Yeah I would just go to CC and then transfer because all these schools are not great. Avoid arts programs unless you go to an Ivy
madison is the best of these options.
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