UChicago ED Transfer VS NYU/CMU/Cornell and Others
Preparing for transfers as an international statistics CC student in Florida. Fed up of the non-target treatment from the BBs and gunning for FO roles.
Father said he's down to pay full, thus I can avoid checking that self-humiliating "Are you applying for need-based financial aid as an international transfer? (If you say yes we'll outright reject you)" So I thought about it and said to myself I might as well buy my ticket in yeah? That's obviously with the bold assumption that I do get admitted.
Anyways, as title says, I have a huge list of 'targets' that I'm willing to pay full so I have a higher chance of getting in + the ROI made sense, I already received several r1s and had an spd with a BB from my community college so its either survivorship bias or I'm actually goated, and it's probably the former.
Would I be shooting myself in the foot if I apply as a full pay Uchicago ED to get a high chance or should I just do RD and see if I can get in the other good places too, I understand that UChi is pretty good for quant/trading which is something I'm really interested in too. I'm down to provide more details about my application/stats/other info.
Might as well add that I'm not sure if its feasible or easy to get into clubs in all of the aforementioned colleges as a sophomore transfers. Because that's another important point as it'll help me immensely in recruitment, can't wait to send an email from my college email and seeing the jump in reply rate.
Self-humiliating bump
I just noticed how long this thing is while shitting. My bad guys, got a little excited for that future pls fix
As somebody who is sending transfer apps rn,what other applications are you sending out rn
Amherst College
Fin Aid
Bowdoin College
Fin Aid
Brown University
Full
Carnegie Mellon University
Full
Columbia University
Full
Cornell University
Full
Dartmouth
Fin Aid
Duke University
Full
Emory University
Full
Georgetown University
Full
Hamilton College
Fin Aid
Harvard University
Fin Aid
Indiana University Bloomington
Maybe?
Johns Hopkins University
Maybe?
MIT
Fin Aid
New York University
Full
Northeastern University
Maybe?
Northwestern University
Fin Aid
Notre Dame University
Maybe?
Princeton University
Fin Aid
Rice University
Maybe?
Stanford University
Full
The University of Texas at Austin
Maybe?
University of Chicago
Full
University of Michigan
Maybe?
University of Pennsylvania
Full
University of Southern California
Maybe?
University of Virginia
Maybe?
Vanderbilt University
Maybe?
Washington & Lee
Fin Aid
Williams College
Fin Aid
Yale University
Fin Aid
UC Berkeley
Full
UCLA
Full
Congrats on the fee waiver bro.
Seriously tho, dm me man wold love to see where you're applying and how it goes
UBS? Never heard of BB hiring CC for FO roles.
But joke aside, I don’t think I learned much in class at an Ivy but what I really value from my expensive piece of paper is 1) you don’t have to try “too hard” to prove yourself, at least at an entry level. 2) how easy it is to build a good network.
Especially on 2), once I graduated from college, meeting people not in my line of work became very difficult. I still go back to friends I met in college, nothing to do with finance, to chill, not having to deal with these NPCs. At an UChicago caliber school, not only there are really smart people open to talk, but dumb and wealthy ones I guess just good to know in life.
MS IED actually, hate myself for not getting the offer but happy I even made it to the spd without any referrals.
As for the reason to transfer, as cliche and cringe as it sounds, I genuinely just want to make a lot of money so I want to make sure that my investment into my degree (which will possibly cost around 150-160k) is worth it and I can get a high paying job that'll make all this ass-licking and networking worth the while, I think all of us at least think about that too. I do enjoy math/research in general.
Yeah, I'm just thinking maybe I can get admitted somewhere like Cornell/Columbia or get finaid from Amherst or another college that's why I wouldn't want to ED. Really hard decision because I do believe as ED + full pay I have my ticket in, they know I'm committing, I won't hurt their yield and I'm paying. What's better than that?
UChicago is better than Cornell and a tiny bit worse than Columbia. Stern has a lot of international students so you have bigger odds there as well, and it’s better than Cornell and little worse than Uchi and Columbia
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