You could also look at the SUNYs. Some, like Albany, have good business departments and there is also the HEOP. I would suggest to you that you PM the moderator Sybbie. She is a professional expert in exactly your situation and is the most generous and helpful person. She will have the best advice you could get anywhere coming from the kindest heart. I wish you the very best of good luck.
Wow. What a long thread. I’m glad I read to the end. How did you get an internship at Blackrock. Did you have any connections?
I can’t believe no one has suggested the school of general studies at Columbia University. It is designed for non-traditional students like you.
Get your scores up and you might have a decent shot.
@sgopal2 Haha, sorry for the long thread. I got the internship at BlackRock(this firm is new; therefore, make me the first and only intern here) because of my Year Up business program. Fortune 500 companies like Facebook, Google, Goldman Sachs(they hardly take any interns), Blackstone, etc look at the work I’ve done in the program and decide if they want to take me or not. I was originally suppose to go to Bank of America, but BlackRock stepped in and took me.
The reason why no one has suggested that is because, my ACT(I’m retaking it this month on the 24th) and GPA is too low. What makes it funny is that Ivy league students wish/dream that they could work here, but I got in with a low GPA and ACT my gap year( not in college yet).
Also, BlackRock is setting up a time with Bloomberg so I get hands on training on their terminal, inside their building. Plus the group that I’m in (Global Provider Strategy–“GPS”) is NOT just considered a BO, but is aFO(mostly this office), MO, AND BO.
What’s your high school’s name? If it’s that bad, you should’ve transferred to something slightly better in your neighborhood; regardless of your financial income. Your definition of success seems to be getting into a company with lower credentials than other applicants who were rejected/accepted. Exactly how did you get in again? How did Blackrock find you? Did you apply for an internship there and at BoA?
The OP should not reveal details like his HS name.
My apologies. My questions still stand, however.
On a completely unrelated note, I find Blackstone and Blackrock humorous.
@SomedayIwill and everyone else, here is the list of SOME of Year Up’s partners. Year Up is a very intense trainning program that even IVY LEAGUES decided to partner up with this program.
Site: http://www.yearup.org/for-employers/current-partners/?location=national-us/
I’m gonna be straight forward and state that its not worth it to even apply.
You have an internship and you claim that you love to help people, but that doesn’t cut it for the ivies. Being part of some programs is interesting, but is definitely not enough to make Harvard or Princeton want you. You could write some amazing essays, but when the admin officers take a look at the GPA and ACT, that could simply make them toss the application.
You seem very driven and passionate about going to an elite top school but I would say that you have little no chance at all with your scores/GPA. If it puts your mind at rest, you could just try applying, writing all those supplements/essays for fun, but I say to expect nothing out of it.
If you really want to go to a top school, I would suggest going to a community college, starting fresh, then applying as a transfer.
Unless that Nobel Peace Prize is already in the bag or your parents can donate a $90 million new library, your GPA alone puts the most selective schools out of reach.
People need to read the thread and stop bashing the OP about Ivies. He gets it. He is working on a list of more realistic colleges.
@inparent These people can read my thread back to front, left to right, and upside-down. They have reading comprehension problems. Even if I can’t get into these selective schools, even if I don’t get hired, just having my site name on my resume shows other colleges that I have want it takes to make it to the top and thatt I’m not just a dam number.
Maybe OP could make a new thread with a new and improved title? Might get more school suggestions that way.
OP, what is this “site name”?
@intparent I was referring to BlackRock. Its what Year Up students and staff refer to our internship as "site’.
Okay… you are not at the top. You are an intern. With less than a year of college under your belt. You have a serious effort to raise your test scores and four years of undergraduate education in front of you before you can even apply for an entry level job. Good for you to land your internship, but the hard work is still in front of you.
@intparent who said I was at the top? I know I have a long way to go.
I agree, you did not say you were at the top. But you imply that your internship is an indication that you have what it takes to make it there. I don’t honestly think it says that much. That is the point I was making. You are still, unfortunately in the process of college admissions and hiring, very dependent on having “good numbers”. But… go study for your ACT. That seems like where you need to focus for your next step. 
What?
Is this the BlackRock that’s been around since 1988 and has a market valuation of $54 billion? Because that’s the assumption we’ve been making in discussing the effects of your internship, which might make a difference at somewhat selective schools due to the prestige of the firm. If the BlackRock you’re working for is an entirely different company, that changes things considerably.
@NotVerySmart that was my bad. I should of reworded it a different way. I meant it’s a new firm that became a partner with Year Up. My internship is the one and only $4.8 trillion BlackRock.
Not to be get hung up on this point, but I’m not sure BlackRock - or any other company - represents 1/15th of world GDP.
Thanks for clarifying on the internship.