If You Live in Kansas City (or another country-ish metro area), please read this.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post. I'm a high school senior with high aspirations of making money in business. Investment banking interests me; I want to make a lot of money, so I also like entrepreneurship. 

I have a 99th percentile SAT, a solid GPA, and great extracurriculars. I've gotten into 3 out of the 4 schools I've heard back from (rejected from Ivy-caliber for Early Decision).

I love the Midwest (not Chicago, I hate it) so cities like Kansas City (my hometown), DFW, Austin, Saint Louis, and Nashville are cities that I want to live in.

Kansas City is top of my list, so if you are working in KC in a high-paying field, especially business, please let me know what you do and where you went to school so I can properly plan these next four years and there on.

Thanks again.

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