Chances for NYU (ED), BC, CMU, UNC-Chapel Hill, etc for Finance/Econ major? Also input on my list?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys so I'm a senior and I wanted to see what my chances were for pretty competitive business schools :O</p>

<p>GPA (Weighted): 102.8
Rank: School doesn't rank but ~top 5% based on GPA</p>

<p>SAT: 2150 Superscored (CR: 720 M: 670 W: 760)
SAT Subjects: Bio M: 790 / US Hist: 720 [also planning on taking Math II this Oct]</p>

<p>Race: Asian/Chinese (female)
Income: ~100k, probably won't qualify for fin. aid
School: Public HS, relatively competitive (5-10 ivys a year)</p>

<p>Awards: National Latin Exam 2nd place for two years; AP Scholar w/ Honor
Athletics: JV Tennis 3 years</p>

<p>APs: APUSH (5), Bio (4), Lang & Comp (5), Psych (5)
Senior Courseload: AP Calc AB, AP Physics 1, AP Lit, AP Micro/Macroeconomics, AP Statistics</p>

<p>Grades show a slight upward trend in terms of GPA (101, 102, 105 -- 102.8 is cumulative)</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>-Community Service Club: secretary jr year and president this year
-Cultural diversity club: project coordinator this year and last year
-National Honor Society VP
-Latin Honor Society treasurer, secretary
-FBLA (no leadership unfortunately, our club's a joke)</p>

<p>Volunteering:
-I volunteer at the Women's Resource Center for domestic violence victims and helped out a lot for their first walk/run last year
-many other volunteer opps (mostly local) but haven't done big stuff like taught underprivileged kids in Africa like a lot of you CC'ers lol</p>

<p>Summer:
-Rotary Youth Leadership Conference
-Economics for Leaders Summer program at Yale
-took a course soph year at Rutgers U</p>

<p>College List:
-NYU Stern ED</p>

<p>-Columbia (dream school, wth why not)
-Duke
-UNC Chapel Hill
-Boston College
-Carnegie Mellon
-Northeastern University
-Rutgers
-Lehigh</p>

<p>Should I add:
-Georgetown
-Villanova
-Cornell
-any other schools??</p>

<p>Recs: Latin teacher w/ Princeton phd; Math teacher who went to cornell undergrad and stern MBA</p>

<p>What are my chances to these schools and how accurate do you think my list is? Should I aim lower/higher? Again, planning to major in Finance/Econ and looking for job on Wall Street eventually or at a large IB firm or BB.</p>

<p>Please help a fellow senior out! Any and all advice is welcome. I'll try my best to chance back! :)</p>

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<p>bumppp</p>

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<p>NYU Stern ED sounds good for you, perhaps you might want to boost a little of your SAT scores though.
It seems that your reaches are Columbia, Carnegie Mellon and Duke. If you’re applying in a range of 10 schools, I believe 3 reaches would be sufficient, so perhaps try not to add Cornell (unless you really want to and don’t mind writing another application).</p>

<p>Georgetown suits politics/international relations more than Business/Finance, so probably not. I believe your score is well above the range of Northeastern, Rutgers,etc. BC and UNC sounds suiting.</p>

<p>NYU Stern usually wants SAT of about 2250, while its colleges want 2150. You can use your 2nd choice to apply to its college :)</p>

<p>Good luck. Chance me back!</p>

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<p>@alafae thank you!! and just chanced you back :slight_smile: It’s too late to boost SATs now but I’ll work with what I have haha. Stern is looking more and more like a stretch so I’m aiming for BC or UNC.</p>

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<li>NYU - honestly, I’ve seen people with terrible grades get into Stern so I really don’t know what they’re expecting, but I’ve also seen really good people turned away, so I’d say anywhere from a reach to a match
-Columbia - reach, but it’s a reach for everybody
-Duke - low reach
-UNC Chapel Hill - reach, unless you’re in-state, it’s significantly harder for out-of-state
-Boston College - low reach/match
-Carnegie Mellon - low reach/match
-Northeastern University - match
-Rutgers - safety
-Lehigh - safety</li>
</ul>

<p>Should I add:
-Georgetown - I would be really careful with Georgetown. If you’re more into maths & sciences, it may not be the right place for you. Their business school is not very strong, they’re very politics-centered.
-Villanova - Definitely a really good safety school, better than Rutgers for safety, and I’ve seen people get a lot of money so if you’re looking for another safety/ are thinking about replacing Rutgers and/or Lehigh, you should definitely add Nova
-Cornell - You definitely could add another reach!</p>

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<p>@ssswims‌ thank you!!</p>

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<p>bump. Also-- took the Math II Subjects this October and scored a 770, which will hopefully balance out my low Math SAT I score…</p>