Specific situation regarding colleges, what should I do?
I'll try to make this concise.
I am currently a freshman at Arizona State University. Although I was hoping to get a 4.0 for my first semester, it looks like I'll be receiving a 3.95 instead. I will probably get an A- in Calculus II. My extracurriculars aren't particularly strong as I'm only a freshman, however, I'm a member of the Financial Management Association and a leadership organization.
I am hoping to break into investment banking upon graduation; not necessarily a large and well known bank like Goldman Sachs, I would be fine with a smaller boutique to start out, and later pursuing an MBA at a top school.
My question: Should/can I transfer out of ASU? I realize that it's not a target, and I was planning on transferring to UVA, NYU, or Carolina. However, I'm afraid that getting an A- or a B+ in Calculus 2 will hurt my chances, as I know they take math grades very seriously. My high school SATs were excellent ( > 2000), my class rank was 11%, but my GPA was only around 3.5 (I went to a private school where the average GPA was not very high). Do I still have a chance at transferring?
A side question: Calculus 2 is as high as finance majors are required to go. After that, we take business statistics or something to that effect. Should I move up to Calculus 3, though, or is 2 enough?
You definitely need to leave ASU. You're not going to get a decent finance opportunity coming out of there. Awesome school for partying and some of the hottest chicks in the country, but for someone serious who wants a future, it's not the place to be. You are definitely competitive for the top public schools due to your high college gpa and maybe some lower ivies, depending on strength of your recs, essays, extracurriculars. If you can get into michigan ross, nyu stern, or uva mcintyre, that would be a good start. Kick ass there, and you can land a good BB gig coming out. Then, do an MBA at a top 5 program, and you have the world by the balls.
Just transfer to USC
Same thing but in a city
try Wharton, MIT Sloan, Berkeley or Cornell....they will probably be your best bet to break into IB
Don't ever listen to the Indian Canadian guy
To answer your question, with a 3.95, you probably have a shot at any ivey or top tier school. So definitely transfer, since recruiting is much better at "target" schools. More math is always better in my opinion, but I would say trying to break into banking, calc II is more than sufficient.
Come to Michigan and bring your bitches with you
you have a solid shot at transferring. I got accepted to UPenn, Northwestern, Cornell, NYU Stern, UNC-Chapel Hill, Dartmouth with those stats.
Rejected at Stanford/Yale Waitlisted at UChicago
Try to transfer and you should be fine. Apply to safeties though
I had a 3.85 at a large public school like ASU and worse SAT's than you and got into Cornell, Northwestern, WUSTL, Notre Dame, and NYU. But I was rejected from my top choices of Stanford and Penn. But I was also a D1 scholarship athlete so that may not be that helpful.
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