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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
Because they're within your stat ranges and give you a realistic shot at IB.
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.
You realize all the Ivy League schools are also considered LACs, right? You don't need finance knowledge to do well in IB...
cant this easily be solved with work experience and self study I am guessing your friend relied heavily on OCR.
I think you need to remember almost 1/2 the students at Williams/Amherst are athletes. Of course they will take the 3.6 lacrosse player over a 3.7 finance hardo. Especially if most of the alumni on the street were also athletes.
It's a numbers game. Apply everywhere.
UVA, Vandy, Wake Forest
UNC, Bucknell, Georgia
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!!! :)
Going off this, I agree. Colleges want someone that’ll make a difference and your essay doesn’t show that.
Vanderbilt, ND, W&L, USC, UVA. For match/safety schools look at UGA, SMU, UNC, and BU, with some effort you can place well.
Agree with the above post, your essay is likely not doing you any favors.
Please don’t put UNC with the second group. At least on par, if not looked upon as better, than every school in the first group.
You're probably right - was thinking of cheaper schools in the second list (public or generous scholarship) UNC is a good school.
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