Which college should I apply to? (Perfect ACT & SAT, 3.49 GPA)
Hey guys, I am in a pretty unique situation and wondering what are my options. I am currently a Senior and I am taking a year off after high school and got a Internship for a Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Branch in my area (Arkansas). I have a "low" GPA (3.49) for Target schools, but scored a perfect score on the ACT and 2 SAT Subject tests.
Any advice? PM me if you think you could help me out.
FinanceBro, bummer your thread hasn't had a response yet. Sometimes bots are smarter than humans anyways:
Hope that helps.
did you go to a private school? If so, semi targets like Northwestern, ND, Georgetown, Emory, Vandy, Rice, Hopkins, UVA, NYU Stern, Ross, Brown, Cornell, USC, Middlebury, Tufts, WUSTL, Hamilton (Waitlisted or accepted to all of these that I applied to, don't believe the ones I didnt apply to would have rejected me) are all in play based off my experience. Also if you have a nice experience like athletics it helps. Trinity (CT) is sneaky good for Wall Street.
Wow, you would get into all of these? Northwestern, Rice, Hopkins, and Brown are near impossible to get into. Wondering how good your application must've been lol.... Also what would you consider a target school then? If the only ivies+ MIT & Stanford are then most people would be in bad shape...
I was an athlete at a prep school but I mean there’s sort of a divide between h/y/p/s/w Mit Chicago Williams and Amherst and then it’s everyone else in my opinion
If you're interested in banking, some of the best schools to apply to are the top state schools (UC-Berkeley, UT Austin, UVA, U Mich), NYU, and most of the Ivies (other than maybe Brown and Dartmouth). If you need a backup, apply somewhere you feel comfortable getting in to, with at least a few past grads who went into IB recently.
There's no point in trying to apply to schools that don't place a strong emphasis on helping the students get banking jobs or at a school where banks don't recruit on campus much. I'm sure there's a few other schools that have great placement as well but those are what come to mind from what I've seen during the recruiting process.
Furthermore, if you're not interested in banking then most of my advice probably isn't relevant.
Why is Brown and Dartmouth bad for banking?
they're not.
not many finance kids at Brown. still a good school, just tends to attract a different crowd than say UMich Ross
dartmouth is kind of in a random area, but I'd say it's still a decent target. Tuck is a top 10 MBA school so firms come for that and also pick up a few undergrads
I would also look into semi targets that place well into regional offices, especially if you're not set on NYC. USC, UCLA for LA/SF, Rice, SMU, Vandy, UT Austin for Houston, Northwestern, ND, maybe some others for Chicago.
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Dartmouth is more than a decent target...always came across a ton of people during recruiting from there and a decent number in my analyst class are from there.
Unless you are a URM or you go to a top feeder school like Andover, Exeter, etc........, or you have something that really makes you stand out like international recognition, getting into Ivies will be almost impossible. Same would go for the top public schools if you are out of state. As someone who's worked in my schools (one of the aforementioned tiers) admissions offic, you will be seen as very smart but also very lazy whatever the case may be. There are just too many kids with perfect scores AND 3.9+ GPAs. Try the applying to college forum on reddit. They can give better advice about getting into schools
Edit: I did not realize this was posted a year ago.
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