Undergraduate Transfer

Hi,

I'm currently a freshman at the University of California Riverside majoring in Business Economics (sadly none of the UC schools have finance, but they have business admin with a concentration in finance). I definitely want to major in finance, so would it be best to continue at this school or transfer to a school with finance. A lot of my potential internships require a finance major.

I'm ready to transfer after my freshman or sophomore year.

Possible schools I was looking into were: U of I Urbana, IU Bloomington, UCLA (junior transfer), UC Berkeley (junior transfer), USC

Thank you for all the advice!

I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum, please feel free to change it.

 

I'm assuming you're a California resident.

If you plan to attend UCLA or Berkeley, I would attend a CC. As I understand, all the UCs place priority on California CC students and it's more of a checklist seeing if you have the prerequisites. This is actually true for all transfer students.

I applied to USC, UCLA, and Berkeley as a transfer student. Was accepted to USC & UCLA. If you have any questions regarding how to prepare your application feel free to PM me.

 

unfortunately I don't have enough points to PM you haha (8 to go). I am a CA resident. I've already thought about CC and decided that it would be best if I attended a four year college. I will try my best to transfer to Berkeley. I have a lot of questions regarding the application timeline and process.

Thanks for the advice luccabananas!

 
Black Jack:

This is so sad...you have been in college for what, 2 weeks? Give your school a chance. If you are dead set on investment banking (which at this point would be ridiculous) then transfer to Berkeley.

A high school junior asked me IB questions and tried to break into some PE shops as a hs student. Sad world, isn't it?
 

Lol it is not a bad thing. I wanted to enter McK when I was a high school senior. What you can do now is to plan your schedule accordingly. Take classes and get a high GPA to transfer. IUB would be a good target if you are aiming at midwest schools. I met plenty of grads there at BB superdays for midwest offices. However, if you are taking a shot at SF/NYC banks, try to squeeze into UCB. That should be your best bet.

 

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