<p>I'm in my second year at Baruch College in NYC and I intend on transferring out at the end of this year to begin my junior year at another school</p>
<p>I went to Stuyvesant H.S. (the #1 high school in NYC) and I did not take advantage of all the opportunities that I had. I slacked off and did the bare minimum to graduate with a 80% average. Now that I've been in college, I see the errors of my way and I would like to go to a school that challenged me like Stuyvesant did.</p>
<p>My reason for transferring is the fact that Baruch lacks dorms and facilities that would make my college experience much better. I'm currently commuting back and forth from home and it takes about an hour to get from one point to the other. Also, I feel like Baruch is a school that is too focused on aiding their students in getting degrees. Now that's not necessarily a bad thing but I feel like many professors teach so that students can score well on tests and not so students actually learn and gain something from the class. To be honest, I'd rather get a B in a course that challenged me than an A in a course that I gained nothing from. All in all, I'm very unhappy with my experience at Baruch.</p>
<p>Now for extra curriculars. I have been interning at a law firm on Wall Street for about a year now. It's a securities and regulations law firm so I have developed a good understanding of what is going on in the financial markets since regulations have been a big part of it. I've also been somewhat involved in various clubs around school. I also went to the London School of Economics for a summer program this past summer.</p>
<p>As for recommendations, I had the same professor for english twice in a row. She's a professor at NYU as well and has agreed to write me a stellar recommendation. Also, when I mentioned my interest in Columbia, she told me her parents are trustees at Columbia so she would definitely write that rec but I'm not too sure of what that means.</p>
<p>As of now, the schools I would apply to are (in no particular order):
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
NYU Stern
USC
Babson
Berkeley
Columbia
Vanderbilt
Boston College
Tulane
My absolute safety is Northeastern (I was accepted out of h.s. but stupidly did not go)</p>
<p>So what are my chances of getting into any of the schools I mentioned. Also, I'd appreciate it if anyone would suggest other schools I maybe haven't looked into.</p>
<p>LSE is a 3 year school with a very specific program. If I transferred into it, I'd have to start as a freshman and lose whatever credits I've earned so far. The tuition for the Econ majors is also 30,000 pounds a year ($50-60,000) with little financial aid to foreign students. I know that's probably the same as NYU but there is also a higher cost of living in London and traveling home would be super expensive. I hope to attend LSE for graduate school.</p>
<p>ugh I commute an hour each way too, it's such a pain in the butt...always running, switching trains, waiting for the subway, waiting for the lirr, dashing to and fro...I feel your pain. anyway I'm not a stern student, but I think you have a decent shot at NYU. your gpa isn't that amazing, but it's good and I think your other stuff (nyu professor recc, wall street, lse) would help you out a lot. don't really know about the other colleges.</p>
<p>Personally I feel like NYU is not a bad place, I think first you should figure out where you get in and then figure what is your best options. Its all about admissions. Then make your decisions. Just apply to a bunch of places.</p>
<p>Anyone know what my chances are if I applied to William and Mary?</p>
<p>I was checking it out and it seems like the school I'd want to go to but I really don't know much about it admissions wise, some clarity would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Also, I've been managing a small fund of money recently. I started with $5,000 4-5 weeks ago and I've managed to turn it into $12,000 so far. I'm hoping to somehow fit it in as an extracurricular. I think it shows I have a pretty good understanding of the financial markets because I've made profits in a time where a lot of people have lost money. </p>
<p>LOL...you shouldn't be majoring in Econ/Finance if you think the fact that you got lucky investing in stocks implies that you know anything about markets...you should start off by reading a bit more about your profession before you jump head first into it...i.e, Fooled by Randomness, Nicholas Nassim Taleb.</p>
<p>IllusionBmore, I'm not majoring in economics/finance because I got lucky in the stock market. I actually started investing in the stock market BECAUSE I'm interested in the financial markets and the major I've chosen. Now I also find it extremely insulting that you would just dismiss it as me getting lucky in the stock market. Everything I do is extremely well formulated and calculated. I keep a daily journal where I write the reasoning behind trades so that I can ensure that I follow my overall trading strategy and it provides a resource for me to refer back to when I don't make money off of a trade, which does happen. I follow a strict trading strategy that is getting tweaked as I go and I don't see how that can be considered "getting lucky". </p>
<p>Maybe you didn't read what I wrote in my initial post but I like to believe I know more about my major/intended path in life than many of my peers. I've interned at a Securities and Regulations law firm that works with both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Association (FINRA). I've also spent the summer in London learning economics from a professor who's arguably one of the smartest economists in the world. Now I've been taking a lot of courses related to my field as well, so I can't consider myself an expert yet, but that's the goal I'm working towards.</p>
<p>I'm majoring in a field that I have a natural interest in and I'm trying to transfer to a college that better suits my needs/situation. If you aren't going to post something that will aid me or others in my situation, I'd appreciate it if you kept your condescending comments to yourself.</p>
<p>Your GPA is in the range for all of those schools and your extracurricular activities (from what information you have given us) seem stellar, especially that internship. Your recommendation, from what you have said, will also be great. You have a good chance at all of the schools listed. Search for Alexandre's posts on the best undergrad b-schools in the nation. He knows what he's talking about</p>
<p>But here's a brief rundown anyways</p>
<p>Michigan Ross
NYU Stern
UPenn Wharton
Berkeley Haas
Virginia McIntire</p>
<p>Schools with good placement into business
Ivy League (HYP, Dartmouth especially)
Williams
Amherst
Duke
MIT</p>
<p>There are more of course, but these are typically the ones mentioned.</p>
<p>A: To be honest, the way the stock market has been lately, almost anybody with a bit of cash could have made some money if they got in (and out) on the right day (esp. with the financials). Therefore, I would take your recent success in the stock market with a grain of salt. Now if you can come back in 15-20 years with the same outlook and method, combined with a continued non-faltering success, that will be a different story. </p>
<p>B: I would be highly surprised to hear if you were still holding onto any of the original investments that you made 4-5 weeks ago.</p>
<p>One day I will profit heavily from your lack of modesty. Anyone who claims that they will "one day be an expert" on markets is just a flat out idiot. There are no stock market experts. First of all, the fact that you profited from a certain set of trades you made doesn't even imply that you made the right decision. You are no time series analyst. You are also no Warren Buffet because you have no inside information. You have no say in company policy. It is of absolutely no credit to your trading strategy that you are currently profiting. Let me ask you a very simple question. Do you play a game that pays out a dollar 99% of the time, yet ends in a 100 dollar loss 1% of the time? Of course not. Decisions should be made based upon expected outcome not probability. Maybe you think your tools and fundamental analysis give you some sort of insight into the likelihood that a stock price eventually go up or down. Yet, you have no way of approximating the expected outcome of that event. If there is a 99% probability that a stock will go up, is that enough information in order to make an informed decision on whether or not to purchase it? No. Absolutely not. I don't care if you've read Benjamin Graham's Security Analysis ten times over, don't ever claim to have a "strong understanding of financial markets" because you had some successful trades. In regards to your being trained by an "expert economist", such is meaningless. Take a look at LTCM. Even the experts are liable to lose great sums of money in the financial services industry. The wise man of the market is the one who understands his ignorance and insignificance. If you don't find this to be true, I'd really be interested in staying in touch with you. After you aquire your expert status, it'd be wonderful if we worked as traders for the same company. It will be a great day for me when your trading strategy takes a big turn for the worse and you end up in the same boat as the rest of the "financial professionals" who believed they knew more than the next guy about markets. Heading home without a job.</p>
<p>William and Mary is a great school, personally I feel like you should go on **************.com and read some of the reviews. I know some people who are over there and they are basically killing themselves with work, some people are happy with a 2.9GPA. I would suggest going to a school like UVA, or some other public university that won't simply eat up your money. If money is not the issue, then try NYU, you have pretty good stats, but essays do make a big difference as well as recommendations. If you need some more help then Private Message me and we can talk more.</p>
<p>But William and Mary is a public university...my friend goes there and is a business major, and he's doing fine. Not a 4.0, but probably like a B+, he says it's not too bad.</p>