Should I add any more colleges?
I'm going to be a high school senior and I'm getting ready to apply to colleges. I was wondering if my college list is good enough. I would like to work either in Investment Banking or Consulting. I have a 3.8 GPA and 4.1 Weighted. I took the SAT and got a 1450/1600. I was hoping to retake it to get above 1500, but I don't think I can anymore. My ECs are decent, Founder of Investment Club, President of DECA, JV sport for 2 years, Varsity for 1 year, volunteered for 200 hours, interned at local company in the Accounting department. I was hoping if I could get more schools in California.
Reaches: UPenn- CAS Dartmouth Brown UVA UC Berkeley UCLA UT Austin - Mcombs UMich- Ross USC- Marshall NYU- Stern Emory
Matches: Boston College UIUC- Gies
Safeties: Indiana University-Kelley UT Dallas
Georgetown and Columbia place well, and would suggest adding Stanford if you want another California school on your list. These are of course reaches, but your list looks really strong already. Try and add some more matches and safeties like BU, Villanova, Florida etc.
I'm sort of already set on going to IU if nothing works out, so I don't want to waste time on safeties.
It's a solid list. You might want to add one or two more Ivys and Gtown.
Your extracurriculars are good, and not many high schoolers have any work/internship experience (no matter how real/rigorous it is) in the area they want to work in, so you seem like you've demonstrated interested well in the areas of business/finance. Your GPA is passable, depending on where your rank in your class, but your SAT score is a big problem. A 1450 falls below the average at many (most) of the schools you have on your list, and assuming you are not a URM, you do not want to be on the lower side of that median line when applying. Where you're really lucky is that your year will likely have test score optional applications because of COVID, and unless you do wind up taking the SAT again and significantly raise your score (somewhere to the tune of 70-80+ points) I would not send it, and hope the 3.8 meets the cut for adcoms to believe you're academically competent.
Would consider adding some of the Claremont Consortium (CMC and Pomona) to your list if you want more schools in Cali, and other top LACs (Williams, Amherst) in general if you want more schools that have a good academic reputation and give you a fair shot at finance / consulting recruiting.
Ya I'm an Asian male, so the 1450 won't cut it for me. I don't think I really have a chance of taking it again because corona cases are going up, and I don't think it will get to levels where it's safe enough to stick 500 kids at a school for testing before I can send it my applications.
pomona CMC Stanford... fuck it why not
I might add CMC, but I didn't like Pomona when I visited. I might do Stanford, but I'm already writing a lot of supplements and Stanford has like 10 essays.
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