Current High School Senior. Where should I go to school to break into banking/finance?

So I am a high school senior from California and I have received all of my college decisions. I applied economics for most schools but now I am realizing I want to do finance/banking instead so I will probably try to transfer later on (which may affect things).

My family makes around 220k a year but fafsa set my efc as 114k somehow so I did not get aid from any universities. Ill be paying full tuition to wherever I go. My family would be able to make it it happen with any school with close to no debt due to familial wealth but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

I am a huge skateboarder and snowboarder so being able to snowboard in college would be great. You can skate anywhere tho so its kinda irrelevant. I am looking for a school with great academics and prestige/ good internship/job opportunities./ cool location/ great social life but not in the typical frat party way.

Also strength of econ program is a factor because I might not be able to transfer to business.

Anyway hear are my options atm

  • McGill University faculty of arts
    • I really like McGill because Montreal seems like a sick city and McGill is really academically focused and prestigious.
    • I would be paying around 30-35k per year
  • Boston University College of General Studies
    • I like Boston a lot but I was accepted into the College of General Studies program which is cool because I can declare a school later on but it kinda seems like a cash grab from BU
    • I would be paying nearly 80k a year.
  • U Washington Seattle Pre Social Studies.
    • I just visited last week and it seemed pretty dope but I didn't fall in love.
    • I would be paying nearly 60k a year
  • Syracuse U economics
    • I do not really know too much about this school but it seems a bit preppy I'm not sure.
    • I would be paying nearly 80k a year.
  • UBC faculty of arts
    • another Canadian school. It seems cool but I do not like it as much as Mcgill
    • I think tuition is comparable to McGill.
  • U Wisconsin Madison economics
    • madison just doesn't appeal to me like other schools I got into but its a good school academically. Maybe a bit too party-school-esque for my liking.
    • around 60k a year
  • Cal poly SLO business admin
    • Everyone from my school goes there. It seems ok but also a very conservative choice on my part.
    • 25k a year or something like that.
  • UCSC global econ
    • Same vibe as cal poly
    • 40k a year
  • UCD Undecided
    • Same as above
    • Davis is probably the worst location though.

What do you guys think? I think McGill is my best bet due to the price but I am not sure. Ive heard getting jobs in the US isn't that easy but I may be wrong. I also heard its very difficult to transfer to bcom. I am ready to work my ass off!

 

Would probably go with USC. Solid feeder to west coast finance, but I'm not sure about transferring from there to Marshall (the business school). I was pretty sure you couldn't snowboard in sunny southern California, but then I looked it up, and turns out there are some spots for that. You'll have no problem skateboarding in a city like LA. At least to an outsider, being a skateboarding, vegan hippie is kind of the vibe LA gives off. In terms of the other stuff, USC has good academics and pretty good prestige. LA probably has good internship/job opps, I would argue that it's a pretty fucking cool place with a good social scene, regardless of what you're into.

-Signed, a Rutgers kid with no relations to USC or any of these schools.

 

Nah bro disregard everything I said then, UC Santa Cruz is shit. My bad, I read that wrong.

 

These are all shit. Go to the one that has historically the highest transfer rate to a target. Alternatively, go to CC for a year and transfer to a california target (UCLA/USC/Berkeley) but stay an extra year - that way you enter in as essentially a freshman and have the necessary time to prepare for recruiting. Have seen multiple people do this and land amazing offers by full time.

 

Yeah I would just go to CC and then transfer because all these schools are not great. Avoid arts programs unless you go to an Ivy

 

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