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You have a solid chance of getting into one of the two and they’re both pretty good for placements , they are a lot better than some of your other applications like penn state. Northwestern is a little bit harder, but definitely doable

 

Your stats and resume are extremely weak, but might as well shoot in an application to every Ivy, Vanderbilt, Chicago, Northwestern, Stanford, Duke, Rice, Berkeley, UCLA, USC, MIT, CalTech, JHU, Williams, UTA, UVA, Mich, ND, etc. It'll be expensive, but you might get lucky and slip through the cracks and get accepted. It's a numbers game, so might as well take the chance right now.

 

Don't apply to LACs.  Buddies there either transferred out or struggled heavily to find IB roles.  They hate most of the sjw student population and there is typically no finance major, generally it's econ which will do absolutely nothing for you in IB.  Have friends at Williams with 3.7 GPAs and they really struggled to secure interviews.  Some even told they didn't get internship offers purely because they have "no technical experience or coursework" i.e. they went to an LAC. 

Instead, look at places with a legitimate Finance major or well-known accounting programs. UVA, Wake (has top accounting), Lehigh, Carnie Mellon, etc.  Semi-targets will get you just as good of an offer as any target if you work hard. Trust me, I went semi-target and anyone worth a shit found IB, Consulting, big 4 TAS. Just gotta have that BS in Finance.

 
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I'm a high school senior so I will obviously not try to provide any advice related to the industry and college. However, I would really suggest changing your essay. AO's usually look down on biz and fin majors, because unless executed with a lot of finesse, such essays will simply make you seem like a money hungry kid. Of course, it is a bit different if you're applying to an undergrad biz school, but I think you still will have to take a humanitarian approach. Colleges, esp the more prestigious ones, want intrinsically curious students. Source: I go to a top 5 boarding school, where we've been essentially bred to perfect our college applications throughout high school. This is also exactly what our college counselors tell us.

Goodluck!!! :)

 
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