A few more matches & high matches?

<p>I'm finalizing my last minute college list right now. I'm looking for a few more schools in the match and high match range for myself. </p>

<p>Which other schools are academically comparable to Emory, Boston College, and Tufts. </p>

<p>A very brief rundown of my stats are (2110 SAT, 31 ACT, top 2% rank in class of 325, IB Diploma Candidate, President of Mu Alpha Theta, VP of NHS, part time job, etc.)</p>

<p>I think these schools are in the match/high match range for me. Which other schools are also at that level for me?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, WashU, Carnegie Mellon, UVa, William & Mary to name a few off the top of my head. I would look at the USNWR ratings of national universities to get some other ideas (I don’t always agree with their rankings but it is valuable as a list of schools).</p>

<p>I’m really thinking about applying to JHU as well. Are there any other schools I should be looking at… And are those too much of a reach for me?</p>

<p>why not Tulane and William & Mary, given what you’ve told us? I think you may be overmatched at all the other schools except maybe BC. If you like Tulane and want to apply, don’t dilly-dally as they started sending out acceptances in August, it seems. Why no GPA figure? What state are you a resident of?</p>

<p>I third William & Mary. What is your major?</p>

<p>My school bases rank on weighted GPA and uses that weighted GPA for everything. I think my situation is a bit strange because I am top 2% in my class, but with an UW GPA of 3.60. I’m not sure if this will hurt me. I’ve taken, by far, the most rigorous courses at my school. 15 AP and IB by graduation as well as 9 honors. </p>

<p>So I wonder how this inconsistency between rank and GPA will affect me. </p>

<p>I’m a resident of South Carolina and have been accepted to Clemson. I plan on majoring in Finance or Economics and I’d like to pursue investment banking following graduation, but I’m not sure I have the stats to get into a school that top banks recruit from.</p>

<p>I don’t know for sure but I don’t think your GPA should hurt you much since you are ranked so highly in your class. Your GPA seems to be more of an indication that your school has less grade inflation than many other high schools. And it is unweighted with brings it down compared to others who post on CC. </p>

<p>Each high school sends out a profile with your application that talks to the average GPA, standardized, test scores, classes offered etc. in that particular school. If your HS has Naviance that could help you see where you fit in compared to other applicants from your school. </p>

<p>Still, it would be prudent to apply to a couple of less selective schools. I would agree with getting a Tulane application in right away (the school gives merit aid as well).</p>

<p>U Virginia, U Michigan, and U Rochester are all good (high) matches.</p>

<p>Colgate for Ibanking, UVA.
Brandeis, Fordham (different religions though, depends on what you look for)
Baruch, if you can afford living in the City.</p>

<p>Colgate would be a school I’m interested in, I didn’t realize a lot of IBs recruited there. </p>

<p>Any another schools I should consider?</p>

<p>As has been mentioned above, Brandeis, Fordham, Baruch, perhaps add Georgetown.</p>

<p>For investment banking, supposedly only a few schools (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn - Wharton, maybe Stanford) are well recruited:</p>

<p>[How</a> Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty](<a href=“http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/11/how_elite_firms.html]How”>How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story - Econlib)
[Brown</a> and Cornell Are Second Tier ? Percolator - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/brown-and-cornell-are-second-tier/27565]Brown”>Percolator: Brown and Cornell Are Second Tier)
[Rivera</a> 2011 - Ivies extracurriculars and exclusion - elite employers use of educational credentials](<a href=“http://www.docstoc.com/docs/134922356/Rivera-2011---Ivies-extracurriculars-and-exclusion---elite-employers-use-of-educational-credentials]Rivera”>http://www.docstoc.com/docs/134922356/Rivera-2011---Ivies-extracurriculars-and-exclusion---elite-employers-use-of-educational-credentials)</p>

<p>Not sure how Claremont McKenna College plays into this; a very large percentage of its students major in economics (which appears to be rather pre-professional / business oriented there), and it claims 10% of graduates to investment banking and 18% to consulting: <a href=“https://www.cmc.edu/csc/employers/where_students_go_2.php#1[/url]”>https://www.cmc.edu/csc/employers/where_students_go_2.php#1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>^^This is from your link to The Chronicle of Higher Education–</p>

<p>"Here’s what a top consultant had to say about M.I.T.:</p>

<p>You will find it when you go to like career fairs or something and you know someone will show up and say, you know, “Hey, I didn’t go to HBS [Harvard Business School] but, you know, I am an engineer at M.I.T. and I heard about this fair and I wanted to come meet you in New York.” God bless him for the effort but, you know, it’s just not going to work."</p>

<p>“Go to like career fairs”’ “say, you know”, “but, you know,” And we are suppose to listen to this as, you know, like expert advise?? Haha</p>

<p>Investment Banks recruit at other schools besides HYP, Penn and “maybe” Stanford. All of the IBs recruit at all of the Ivy’s and, Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc. </p>

<p>My Cornell grad D1 works with grads from MIT, Yale, Harvard, Vasser, Duke, etc. All of the IBs recruit at Cornell.</p>

<p>They recruit at Berkeley also, but they are not taking 20-35% of Berkeley’s graduating class like they are at HYP: <a href=“http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/out-of-harvard-and-into-finance/[/url]”>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/out-of-harvard-and-into-finance/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I would be very interested in attending Georgetown or CMC (although I can’t say the same with my parents as it’s 3000 miles away). </p>

<p>For schools that place heavily into IB, I know I don’t have too many options. </p>

<p>What kind of realistic reaches could I be considering?</p>