<p>William Patterson is also on the NACAC list and is close to NYC.</p>
<p>OP, you also need to add the $15K to live in NYC to the $16K for tuition and fees for Baruch.</p>
<p>Dini, I think you severely underestimate the competitiveness of Baruch. With a 3.2 you would NOT be a top applicant at all and it’s unlikely it’d be easier than Indiana.
You can work in the Fall and apply for the Spring, I think the deadline is Sep 15.
(Knowing someone who knows someone will do you no good, CUNY is centralized.)
Furthermore, Baruch will basically get you where Indiana would.
You can’t change your GPA. You CAN still change your SAT score. A 3.2 with an 1800 is different from a 3.2 with a 2100 in terms of college admissions and scholarships. It wouldn’t change anything for Kelley (you don’t have the GPA) nor would it change financial aid at IU (they don’t provide aid to OOS applicants) but it’d increase your odds at a lot of other schools, including Zicklin.</p>
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<p>You would, however, have the time to research and apply to schools that would be more likely to give you good aid.</p>
<p>Howard, if doable in terms of SAT and GPA, would be an amazing opportunity…FREE. Totally free, and a terrific school.</p>
<p>OP is only **eligible ** for the scholarship at Howard. It is by no means a guaranteed scholarship.</p>
<p>With a 3.23 gap and a SAT score of 1860, while he will be admitted,however, barely making the minimum cut off he probably won’t receive a scholarship</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.howard.edu/financialaid/grants_scholarships.htm#Freshman”>http://www.howard.edu/financialaid/grants_scholarships.htm#Freshman</a></p>
<p>I’m gonna tell you up front I’m not gonna be much of a help but I want to say that I’m in your situation now.</p>
<p>I’m a wall street hopeful who got into a pretty decent school but completely can’t afford it without taking out a ton of loans. It sucks cause we’re competing for IBD jobs with kids whose parents had it all mapped out for them: a trust fund, 300k in a bank account for Harvard, elite prep school, private tutors- a lot of them Collegeconfidential parents who come off as pretty harsh on us “normal” kids for wanting that kind of lifestyle when we’re not from 7 generations of millionaires. Loans seem like they’re the only hope for us to catch up to these kids but they’re a big risk.</p>
<p>I can’t tell you if the loans are worth it or not. I have your same dilemma. Guess I’m just here to say best of luck to you and make the best of wherever you end up, hard work is the only way to the street.</p>
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<p>I’m sure others will agree with me, those types of parents don’t have to come to CC tbh. Why would they?</p>
<p>I agree with NewHavenCTmom. The kind of people you’re talking about, ChemistryKing, just write a check. The majority of people on CC are trying to guide families away from life crushing debt. Their advice is well thought out and comes from years of experience with these types of situations. I hope families are paying attention.</p>
<p>Chemistry king. There are PLENTY of folks working on Wall Street who did not grow up with a silver spoon in their mouths. I sure hope you can alter your viewpoint before you start applying for jobs there yourself. It sounds like a very narrow view of those employed on Wall Street and in IB.</p>
<p>ETA. No one is saying this OP should NOT pursue their career dream. Not saying that to you either. What folks are saying is that there are affordable ways to do so, if one is open minded, and looks for them.</p>
<p>I’m sorry no disrespect to the vast majority of CC parents, but every once and a while there’s some that say stuff like the OP is too immature to go off to college. That’s the elitist pretentious stuff I’m talking about.</p>
<p>However, you did not read about anyone saying this to the OP. Please do not derail thread</p>
<p>On a public and anonymous forum, we all “are what we write.” So, chemking, you have to view the context in which responses are sometimes made. </p>
<p>OP: tell us you are now running NPCs, so you have at least that info to work with. And, as someone pointed out Baruch apps go through CUNY, be sure you are carefully reading the admissions info on college web sites.</p>
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there’s some that say stuff like the OP is too immature to go off to college. That’s the elitist pretentious stuff I’m talking about.
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<p>Where are you getting the idea that when parents get the feeling that a student is too immature to go off to college that in indicates that the parents are elitist and pretentious? There is no correlation. Regular folks can sniff out immaturity or naiveté after a couple of posts.</p>
<p>I am not saying that this OP is too immature to go to college. Naive at first, but appears to get it now. That said, I don’t know why he wants to work on WS. his stats do not indicate that he would be a mover and shaker, but maybe he is a late-bloomer</p>
<p>BTW…there are other routes to Wall Street other than coming from rich parents. There are students with excellent stats that get great aid from top schools. there are students who go to schools that they can afford,do well, and then go to a more elite grad school. Going into debt at an OOS public is not a good route.</p>
<p>OP, it’s great to have an ultimate goal of working for an IB and I admire the fact that you are on fire to do it. What strikes the parents as naivete, however, is that you haven’t done your due diligence–and due diligence is the essence of IB.</p>
<p>You didn’t do you due diligence on college costs, especially at IU.</p>
<p>Apparently, you didn’t do you due diligence on getting into Kelley at IU, either–have you read the all the threads about how difficult it is to get into Kelley if you are not a direct admit? You need to make sure you get all of the courses you need, when you need them, and do exceptionally well in all of them–because you and a zillion other aspiring I-Bankers who did not qualify for Kelley direct admit are all competing for the same few available spots.</p>
<p>It’s not easy, not for the faint-hearted, not for the poorly prepared. What’s your game plan for doing well if you should ever land on the IU campus? Your grades and your scores (which are not bad at all) are on the lower end at Indiana–they accepted you early because they saw you as a cash cow…yes, reality bites. Especially, what level math are you comfortable with? How strong is your writing? Your study skills? Your time management skills? What you have done in high school isn’t bad, but it won’t be nearly enough to be successful in getting into Kelley should you find a way to land at IU.</p>
<p>If you went to IU, and did not get into Kelley–What’s your Plan B? Again, due diligence…</p>
<p>An additional note–a lot of this also applies if you go to CC, to Baruch, to Rutgers…</p>