CC -> IB?

I’m currently in my second year of community college in CA. Late to the game but if I transfer and network I can work my way up into Ib. What are my chances with these stats:

Age: 19
GPA: 3.75
Not submitting SAT/ACT cause of COVID
Ec: - martial arts 15 years, martial arts instructor 6 years (current job)
- business and economics club at cc
- basic knowledge of excel (working on completing biws excel program)

~80 units completed by transfer Spring 22
Got 3 B’s in English 101, chem 101, and stat for bus, rest all A’s. Currently taking a different stat course to get an A to show improvement.

I will have all transfer prereqs done for all schools by spring

Schools:

Big Reach- NYU, Georgetown, Cornell

Reach- northwestern, northeastern, WashU St.L, Washington and Lee, uc Berkeley

Target-UCLA, USC, UVA, Boston college, babson, Villanova

Safety- UCSB (transfer admission guarantee), CSUN (local cal state)

Not sure if im gonna apply to all of these, just a brainstorm list. Also I want to make sure I maintain a high gpa, heard that Berkeley ruins gpa not sure about haas specifically.

Any feedback helps :)

 

Csun will not give you great chances at IB. Santa Barbara very slightly better but still a hard sell. UCLA and usc place decently but you’ll need to network given you’re a transfer student. Anything is possible tho so don’t let me get your hopes down. I was once a CC student and now I’m in IB. Granted I took an elongated path here by going to grad school. Keep networking and never stop networking. Good luck

 

If you can transfer to USC, UCLA, or UVA, depending on when you transfer (recruiting happens spring of Sophomore year so if you can transfer before then), and if you even have time to get involved in the IB clubs then yes you have a chance. 

 

By fall, a lot of the banks have already finished recruiting (all of the EB's except Centerview), but if you network hard starting now - the fall and come into the fall with a strong network of bankers then I think banks like JPM (I think still recruit in the fall), and many of the MM's is definitely possible. It will come down to if you network now and as soon as you start at whatever school you immediately start interviewing.

 

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