<p>Hi everyone!</p>
<p>I'm currently a first year student at a community college in California and my dream is to land and investment banking job or to become a stock broker at a full service firm on Wall Street. My original plan was to grind hard for my first two years and get accepted into either the econ program or Haas at UC Berkeley. In recent weeks however, I've learned from various sources that getting any sort of job on Wall St right after graduation is unlikely because most firms recruit from east coast schools. Now I think it might be a good idea for me to attempt to transfer into NYU and study there. My problem is that I was the worst kind of student in high school and I'm afraid that it's going to bite me in the ass. I was one of those students that was smart enough to take AP classes but coasted along putting in as little effort as possible</p>
<p>High school stats:</p>
<p>No AP classes</p>
<p>GPA: I don't have it in front of me but my guess is ~2.5. Yeah, that bad...</p>
<p>SAT 1600 (didn't study). I did study for the English section of my PSAT and I got a 1710 so I'm sure I could raise that and get at least an 1850.</p>
<p>ECs: One year of mock trial</p>
<p>College info:</p>
<p>I'm currently taking 13 credits and have a mixture of As and Bs, although I think I can get all but one of the Bs up to an A by the end of the semester. I registered for classes late so only one of my classes is UC transferable. Unfortunately, the consequence of that is that I'll need to take summer courses to make sure I'll have 60 UC transferable credits by the end of spring semester in 2016. </p>
<p>Next semester I'm taking:</p>
<p>Econ 101 - 3 credits</p>
<p>Econ 102 - 3 credits</p>
<p>Stats for behavioral sciences - 4 credits</p>
<p>Business 101 - 3 credits</p>
<p>EMT certification - 6 credits (not UC transferable, I plan on working as an EMT at least until I transfer.)</p>
<p>19 credits total.</p>
<p>So from where I'm standing things look bleak but I'd like to hear from someone that knows a bit more about this stuff.</p>