I go to a community college in Westchester. My grades are pretty good, I'm in 3 honors groups, have a good amount of extracurriculars. I got a pretty good internship with a healthcare advisory firm in NYC that almost exclusively works with PE, HF's, and investment banks. Also I'm going to intern at a Morgan Stanley doing PWM or even possibly in the capital markets division during the school year. I have a great relationship with my professors and want to transfer to Cornell, Columbia, or Amherst. Just wondering if anyone else on here transferred to a target from CC and what was your experience like?
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I didn't go to a CC, but my friend transferred the same year I did from a CC. The quality of CCs vary widely, so your experience will depend a lot on where exactly you are at the moment. The classes are incomparably harder, social life is many times better, you will have the opportunity to go anywhere you want after graduation, and top grad schools will take you seriously.
I don't think there are many people who have regretted transferred to a better school and regretted it.
Which target did you transfer to?
One of the schools in the midwest.
How were you able to get an internship at a bulge bracket while in community college?
I live in Westchester and lot of wealthy the people here do finance. A lot of my friend's parents are in it. I know a lot of people who were MD's at BB's and it's really all networking. I just happen to be lucky because of location and connections via friend's parents. And the internship isn't IBD, just PWM. The woman I'm talking to is well connected with some guys who do capital markets so she's gonna arrange a sit down.
How good are they?
I switched from pre med to econ so 3.8 by the time I apply at the end of next semester
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