School timeline I guess

I'm currently ata decent, but mostly non target, state school studying economics. The school offers a program where I can earn a master's in econ in four years, but they award the bachelor's degree after three years. This leaves me with a few different options. My first idea is to do the traditional four years of school, two internships, and stick to the normal recruiting timeline for IB. The second idea is to take the two internships path but skip my senior year, using that time to either take a third, non IB internship, or travel (probably travel). The third idea is to transfer out after earning my bachelor’s to a better master's program, either finance or econ. I believe I could get into an Ivy or at least a top-15 school, which would look alot better than my barely top 30 school. The downside (or upside) of this is that some programs take three semesters to complete. This would allow me to take another internship and travel before going into IB full time. But I don't know if taking the extra semester will fuck up the recruiting timeline, plus there's the potential debt. I've already landed an internship at a BB for the summer (i'm currently a sophomore), and I'm pretty sure I can land a good internship next summer as long as I don't fuck up this summer. But could saying I'm transferring somewhere good help me get a better internship. Sorry for wasting your time lol.

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Yeah transfer to an Ivy. As soon as you get in, you can put it on your resume with your expected graduation date.

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