For a career in Investment Banking, would it be worth it to transfer from Cornell to a stronger target such as Dartmouth, Columbia, or Harvard?
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Not necessary, unless you aren't happy at cornell
Those are pretty lateral moves at that point. Cornell sends loads of people to BB as well as any other school outside of HYPW. As long as you get there and do your thing you'll be fine. What college are you in?
Cornell is a bigger target (provided you're in AEM) than Dartmouth and Columbia. If you get into Harvard, however, and you want IB, you'd be a moron not to go. Princeton to a lesser extent.
I thought Harvard doesn't take transfers?
They don't let your courses transfer, but at a lot of schools, you can test out of courses by taking their final exams and getting an A or a B. I wonder if that's applicable at Harvard.
Actually, as long as your courses aren't super-specific to the school (ex: Music Humanities at Columbia), most of your courses do transfer.
@umadlol: They do now. But the transfer acceptance rate makes freshman admissions look like a safety school application. I think for the last year the acceptance rate for transfers was 0.8%. About 15 are admitted out of 1500 or so applicants. And 13 out of 15 decided to go. Out of the 15, the majority were transfers from other top schools (Penn, Stanford, Dartmouth), and a couple were from Deep Springs.
Transfer Students Transfer admission stats for fall term: Applied: 1,486 Admitted: 15 Enrolled: 13
http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeI…
Oh, and every year, the transfer acceptance rate falls further. The first year back it was 1.4%, then 0.8% and so this year it might be around 0.5%. Basically, applying for transfer to Harvard unless you've cured cancer, is a waste of money and time (repeat: 15 out 1500 just in the second year of the transfer program).
If you actually have the chance to transfer, i would transfer.
Dartmouth - much smaller than cornell, yet get very extensive OCR. What that means is that you will likely to face less crude competition for landing interviews, compared to Cornell.
Harvard - if you get in, go. But, sorry you won't get in.
Columbia - smaller than cornell so OCR may be less competitive. NYC location can't be beat, networking opportunities.
^ If he's in Dyson-AEM, he'd be a moron to transfer down to Dartmouth/Columbia. Otherwise, not so much.
yeah, i wouldn't transfer unless it was Harvard. transferring sucks because you have to start with a new gpa at your new school. if you are doing well at cornell already, you won't get much benefit out of transferring. networking with alums and prepping for interviews may serve you better
Don't think its worth the effort and time to do the application, you should reach out to Big Red Alumni ( there are a lot on Wall Street) and network instead
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