Chance me: NYU, UMich, Berkeley, USC, Cornell

The Universities in order: Michigan Ross, UVA, NYU, USC, Berkeley, Cornell and then a bunch of safeties.

About me:

  • Age: 20
  • Citizenship: US, Germany (USA: 3 years, Germany: 17 years)
  • State of residence: CA
  • Applying for Fall 2018
  • Race: White (European)
  • Gender: Male
  • Intended Major: Business Administration with a concentration on management

Current school:

  • Going to CC
  • No transfer agreements
  • Good track record for transfers (although mostly CSU)
  • I have a GED

My Academics:

  • GPA: 4.00
  • Credits: Currently 31, but will have 62 by Spring (I am confident that I will keep my 4.00)
  • Honors Program (5 Honors classes have to be completed)
  • Will be on the Honors list once and Presidents list three times
  • Have been taking an extra load of classes, including summer and intersession
  • No SAT as of yet (UVA being the only one requiring it)

Extra stuff:

  • Will be in these honors societies: Alpha Beta Gamma, Alpha Gamma Sigma, Phi Theta Kappa, Psi Beta, Sigma Kappa
    Delta, Phi Alpha Mu, National Technical Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta
  • Really good recommendation (Currently one)
  • My personal essay should be pretty good and unconventional. I put a strong empathizes on writing something unique
  • I have a pretty unique life-story in the first place

EC:

  • I invest on my own full-time and can pay up to $60000 of tuition from my profits within the last year alone.
  • Due to me investing, I know pretty much everything that one has to know when it comes to research: understanding all
    financial documents, the geopolitics, economics in general etc…
  • I have a bunch of more traditional EC like helping out locally, but to be honest I don’t think it carries a lot of weight.

Oh and I want to work in finance after college …

You have taken the ACT correct? If you haven’t taken the ACT or SAT (don’t know how you got by that) then you need to take it.

I lived in Germany. We don’t have those there. Since I am applying as a transfer I do not need them (except for uva).

With your stats as an international, I’d be thinking more like Babson or Bentley or Bryant for business colleges.

How come?