Montreal High Schooler looking to break into IB in the U.S (Preferably new york)
Hi , i'm almost done with high school , looking to apply to a cegep (2 yr program after 11th grade) in montreal or directly a university in the U.S. I really want to become an Investment banker as it was always my dream.
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How do i get into a target school if I want to go to the U.S , are the SATs enough along with an extracurricular (such as violin)
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How can I secure a scholarship supposing i want to get into NYU
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Is desautels good for investment banking in the U.S or will it be a struggle to break in?
Thanks.
if you are planning on going to the US, do NOT attend Desautels. Exits to the US will not happen, it is that simple. You will have more chances of recruiting for NY by going to a local non-target (Pace, Fordham, etc.) than Desautels. Plus if you are a good student these low-tier schools can offer you scholarships (partial, if not full). SATs will be important but it is not the whole picture. US applications were focused on "holistic candidates" in my day (GPA, SAT, Extracurricular, essays, etc.), don't know if anything has changed with COVID.
Source: went to Desautels and a current 1st year analyst at a Big 6 canadian bank.
The Hounours in Investment Management program places extremely well but I’m not sure if it places in the US.
Well what’s your GPA/Class rank and SAT score? Do you have any awards for playing violin? Any other ECs? Sports? BTW NYU is steadily becoming very selective and this year is poised to have an acceptance rate of around 7% overall, and far less for Stern.
I'm in level 6 in royal conservatory , just 2 more and i'll be through . I'm not super athletic but I'm pretty good at badminton
Planning to take the SAT in June.
GPA's don't exist in my area but I go to the best french-speaking school in my neighborhood
The only Canadian colleges that get legitimate looks from American banks are ivey and queens.
Some people are saying that desautels is good but I see that queens and ivey are being named pretty often
It is good for Toronto but you can't get any better than queens and ivey for giving yourself a shot at nyc.
What's the best university i can get into in the us with a good sat score , good grades and violin as an asset . Oh and if i have to write an essay , i'll keep the bs short
Define good SAT score. Define good grades. Define violin as an asset. What other extracurriculars do you have? You will have to write more than one essay, and there are dozens of effective strategies on how to write them (not sure that keeping the bs short is one of them).
Umm 1510+ for a good SAT Score? By good grades , 85+ and I basically only have 1 extracurricular that actually matters(violin).....
1510 is a good SAT score. I'm not exactly sure how your school system works, but 85 isn't that good here (pretty much a 3.0). That being said, if you're not in the US, it depends on your rank in relation to the rest of your class/grade/batch of students. If you ranked yourself in relation to the rest of your class, where would you stand? Top 10% is good enough for a lot of good US schools.
I can't say this enough, but you NEED MORE EXTRACURRICULARS. If you only have violin, that's not nearly close to good enough. Idk how much time you have left of high school/how much time before college applications go in (shouldn't they be in already?), but you need to get in other serious extracurriculars NOW. Feel free to ask if an extracurricular you're thinking of doing is good or bad.
I have a year left btw.
what are some extracurriculars that I should do?
It's tough to get good extracurriculars with one year left, but I'm sure you can do good stuff. https://blog.prepscholar.com/list-of-extracurricular-activities-examples
The link above has a massive amount of ECs to do. The key is to get a good mix of ECs. Some should be relevant to your intended major, some should showcase leadership and initiative, and some should just be about your interests and passions to prove you're not a robot/machine.
Side note: I noticed in your original post that you want to secure a scholarship at NYU? Getting a scholarship at any uni is very very difficult as an international, but NYU is known for being especially stingy with aid (even for people in the US) so you're probably not going to get much in terms of merit-based aid there. In terms of need-based aid, that's a whole different discussion altogether but I'm assuming you're talking about merit-based scholarships here.
Not sure how marking is out in Quebec, but at least in the Toronto area, an 85 average would have you hard pressed to get into a decent Ontario university, let alone get into a US target.
To be honest, by looking at the stats, McGill doesn't even place that well in Toronto tbh.
Answering your original question, easiest route is get into a target school in America. Contingency plan should be to absolutely destroy it at Ivey/Queens (BB and EB have OCR). The HIM program at McGill is just as good but very selective entry process. Graduated from a top 6 school (so no bias here), worked in PE and have friends that do recruiting.
I'm looking at U.Michigan Ross . Is it hard to get into and is it expensive? Apparently it's a very good school (on par with some of the ivies)
12% acceptance rate, very tough to get into (will vary based on other factors like your race tho). I don't know your family's financial situation, but it'll be like 70k all in per year. Because it's a public school in the US, most of the financial aid they give out goes to Michigan residents and there's not much left even for US residents from other states.
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