Getting into IB
Hey guys, I'm an Korean American applying to colleges. I'd like to get into IB / MBB Consulting in NYC. I am currently considering the following schools:
Amherst, Columbia GS (I am eligible), Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Grinnell, Harvard, Haverford, JHU, Pomona, Princeton, Swarthmore, UVA, UPenn, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale.
Because I attended a university in Korea for 12 credits, I'm only eligible to apply to these colleges as a first-year student. I have okay stats(1580 SAT, 3.9 GPA, recruiting for D3 baseball, 7/250 for the whole class, 2/165 for humanities students, fluency in 5 languages), but considering that I attended a public high school makes me a overall weaker applicant.
Therefore, I'm also considering applying to Stony Brook Korea as a business management major and doing a minor in applied mathematics. I am aware that Stony Brook rarely places into Wall Street, but I feel like SBU Korea provides me with a chance to either
1. be close to Wall Street for a solid internship as a senior
2. graduate for a solid MBA placement in the US
What is the consensus for Stony Brook on Wall Street? Is there no representation at all? Also, if I were to apply to SBU, which major should I choose between business / technological management / applied mathematics and statistics?
honest answer: for ib recruiting, the school name matters more than almost anything else here. bb and eb recruiting in nyc is built around on-campus pipelines at a fixed set of schools, and stony brook (us or korea) is not one of them. there is some representation, but it is people who networked their way in, not campus recruiting.
with a 1580, 3.9 and d3 baseball recruiting you are a real applicant at the schools on your list, and several of them (upenn, harvard, yale, princeton, dartmouth, duke, columbia) are the core of the nyc ib pipeline. even the liberal arts ones (williams, amherst, swarthmore) place well per capita. public high school is not the weakness you think it is.
doing stony brook korea and fixing it later with an mba is the slow, expensive route. get into the strongest school you can first. major barely matters at a target - econ is the default, math/stats works too. same answer for mbb, they recruit off the same target list.
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