Transferring from Queen's Commerce to a school in the US
Hey guys, I've been using this site for a while to make decisions about which universities to apply to and go too (The University Power Rank helped a lot for me) . I'm in Grade 12 and have accepted my offer to go to Queen's Commerce next year in Canada. I had actually applied to 4 ivies (Columbia, Wharton, Harvard and Cornell) and NYU and got rejected to them (2040 SAT so that was pretty low), so my next best offer was Queen's Commerce in Kingston Canada. I should add I'm Canadian by the way.
I was wondering what your opinions are on transferring to a school in the US after my first year at Queen's Commerce if my end goal is to end up working at an IB firm on WallStreet. Which schools should I attempt to transfer too? I know my biggest mistake was applying to only difficult schools to get into I should've left myself more options.
Thanks a lot for any advice you may have, I appreciate it :)
Be ready to spend an extra year at your US school....thus making your undergraduate experience 5+ years. Why the allure of a US target over Queens? Queens is already a semi-target.
1- Its all about GPA when you transfer so if you can't pull at 3.5+ GPA, forget about transferring to the USA 2 - Your first year at Queens will usually amount to maybe 3 or 4 recognized classes that transfer over, maybe even less that you went to a Canadian school and its harder to find an equivalent class. Thus, when you enter as a transfer at a US school, you will have as much credits as a freshman on day 1 unless you have credit from IB/AP, in which almost all of the US at targets do. Some of my roommates from years ago in college had 7 or 8 classes credit already from a combo of IB/AP. 3- Hilariously expensive and no financial aid. Make sure your parents are down for the financial burden before you spend time into this. 4 - There are very few schools that let you into the business program immediately as a transfer, schools like UM Ross Business need you to spend 1 year at the school first before you can apply. The list of schools to apply to for IB is too big and exhaustive.
and hahaha, no need to state you're Canadian....."grade 12", I could tell by the second sentence.
If anything you should transfer to Ivey (Western) after you kill your first year at Queen's. By far the best business program in the country that actually places decently into NYC.
I actually chose Queens over Ivey... Didn't like the 2+2 program :/
Unless you can get into a target in the US (Ivies, top publics etc), I'd suggest you stick to Queens. It's much cheaper (you pay about what 20 - 25% of the cost) and Queens is still a solid school which controls Bay Street along with Ivey (and places a few students on Wall Street). Try joining the QUIC - a good percentage of the kids there end up going to EB/BBs; you can check out the resumes of the members online. Ill echo the poster above and advise you to transfer to Ivey if you're deadset on breaking into Wall St; its placements are phenomenal and the social scene is excellent.
I know plenty of Queen's grads who ended up on Wall St. Focus on getting a killer GPA, network, get early internships and you should be fine.
Is it possible to get internship at NY firms while a student at Queens? Are Wall St firms even interested in interning students from canadian schools?
How adimate are you on working on wall street? Have you ever asked yourself why you want to move? Queens is a solid school that places extremely well on bay street. I've also seen quite a few queens grads work bb in Canada and move to reputable buy side gigs in the US.
Can you transfer from Queens comm, Rotman to US schools? (Wharton) (Originally Posted: 03/08/2016)
Hi, I'm currently in grade 12 from Toronto and I'm wondering if I can transfer to Wharton from queens commerce or Rotman after my first year Undergrad and what I would have to do, and is this even realistic? -Thanks
Elon Musk transferred from Queens to Wharton. Anything can be done.
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