Should I tranfer out of Emory?
I've been thinking about choosing a business career in NYC or other major business hubs. I'm not sure if Iâ€m interested in IB or Management consulting, or other financial jobs . Graduating seniors aren't suppose to be so "focused" right out of high school anyway. All I've been doing is reading lots and lots of business related materials like Forbes, Economist, Barron's, WSJ, Liar's Poker (the book), and expose myself to the business world. But I know that no matter how many business books and magazines a dreamer devours each day, there are certain factors that may thwart the ambitious student from achieving his or her goals. I have a number of factors that I think will thwart my own goals, and I'm willing to share them with you in hoping that I'll find guidance and answers to whether I should really pursue this "business" path or not.
- I'm Asian. I'm short (five six). I know that tall white males cover the high ranks of most of the prestigious firms, and I was wondering whether my physical characteristics will affect my admittance to Wall Street firms. And if I do happen to get into a major firm, will my physical appearance (mainly my height and my skin color) keep me from progressing up the ranks of that firm?
- I'm attending Emory University this fall. I know Emoryâ€s B school isn't exactly a Wall Street feeder school, but it is a targeted school for major firms like Goldman Sac, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, and Deloitte Consulting(http://goizueta.emory.edu/degree/undergra_career_…). Many people say prestigious schools get applicants to the doors of major firms, and how well the applicants do afterwards is completely up to their working capability. So is Emory, a general semi-target school compared to super feeder schools like the Ivies, good enough for me to have at least an opportunity to get to the doors of major firms? If not, should I consider transferring to a more prestigious school located in the north east?
- I moved to the united state three years ago. My English wasnâ€t so good when I first moved here. My math score is good, but I donâ€t have a high English score (34 for math and 29 for English). I was wondering whether major firms take college admission standardize tests for consideration. And if they do, will they understand my situation, that I was once a bad English speaking person but has drastically changed since then?
thank you so much for reading all this
Wall street is crawling with asians. It's FAR from the gentlemen's club it was 40 years ago. Whatever you do, just don't be one of those boring asian robotic kids during your interview.
yeah, it's more of a semi-target, but don't transfer for that purpose only. what you should do instead is start networking NOW with alumni, family, etc - anybody. Then, by the time summer analyst recruiting rolls around, you will have a better probability of being able to say, "I sorta have a relationship with someone at XYZ firm." Other than that, keep your grades as high as possible to make sure you make it into your first round of interviews.
don't worry about SATs/ACTs for now. it'd be ridiculous to retake them just for resume-screening purposes.
Wanted to bump this. Skip down to the bottom if you don't want to read everything.
I'm also contemplating transferring out of Emory (undergraduate) Didn't work very hard in highschool; I was the typical underachieving smart kid. (3.2 unweighted, 2240 sats, 730+ all my sat iis) High school was just a party for me, and I ended up at Emory.
At Emory, I plan to double major in econ-math and business administration.
Although I love my social life at Emory, the lack of academic rigor causes me dissatisfaction. First semester I took multivariable calculus, intermediate micro, financial accounting, and japanese 101. Ended up with a 3.8 because I didn't study at all for multivariable's final. I'm pretty confident I can graduate with a 3.8+.
I can't comment on the academic rigor of the business school classes since I've only taken one business class.
However, since all of the econ-math classes I've taken are intermediate or upper level major requirements, I feel that I can safely assume that most of my econ-math requirements won't be much more of a challenge.
Furthermore, even though I'm not sure about what I want to do in, I'm pretty sure that I want to do something in business. Reading through old threads on WSO, I understand that Emory also doesn't have much clout in Wall Street.
So there you have it, I want to transfer for better job recruitment and for more of an academic challenge. Wondering what you guys think?
So basically, 1. I was a smart underachiever in high school. 2. Emory's not much of a challenge, and it doesn't have great recruiting for finance. 3. I want to transfer to Yale, Columbia, or Penn since I want a semi-urban to urban environment.
Are my reasons for wanting to transfer legitimate?
*note: I'm a freshman now, and I'll be putting in transfer applications sophomore year, for junior year. Need to mitigate my absymal high school gpa as much as possible before I apply.
With prestigious firms like Bear Stearns recruiting, why would you even want to transfer???
apologies to the OP but this just made me bust out laughing
Transfer if you can. especially if you are a freshman. I know alot that transferred to Wharton and never regretted it.
fyi, this post is a couple years old.. :)
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