I am trying to get into wall street, so which of these would I have the best chance of getting in at? I’m from Chicago, but I don’t know if that matters for northwestern. They all have pretty similar ed acceptance rates. And what are some good targets and safties for me?
Stats:
Asian male competitive school high income
1540 sat
3.8 uw 4.4 w
9 ap classes with all 4s or 5s
Varsity golf and track, highly ranked in state for both but won’t get recruited
Built an app with over 200k a year in profit and hundreds of thousands of downloads
Invited to multiple android events
My lors were probably 9/10 (they showed I actually have a personality which is a stereotype for people like me
Essays were like 4 out of 5
Self-taught myself futures trading and did extremely well
Kind of want to go to stanford but thats not going to happen
What do you plan to study ?
If finance, then look at UPenn-Wharton & at NYU-Stern.
Dartmouth College places well on Wall Street–which is your stated goal.
Northwestern University can get you placed anywhere in finance–including Wall Street–if one completes any one of three certificate programs run in conjunction with the Kellogg School of Business. But the courses are quite demanding so participation is not widespread.
do you think I would have the best chance of getting into dartmouth ed?
I would have to review each school’s website in order to offer an assessment as to which school might present the best odds of admission for those applying ED.
Northwestern University, for example, values ED apps which reveal familiarity with specifics about the school.
Dartmouth College likes well rounded individuals with strong people skills.
Penn may have certain preferences as well.
All of these schools can get you to Wall Street. If you want to study finance and pursue IB, then NYU-Stern may be your best ED option.
What do you want to study ? Finance ? Math & statistics ? Or ?
Finance, don’t really like the nyu campus system though. Would rather have a real one.
Does Dartmouth offer a defined program in finance?
NU Alum here - if wall street is the goal, 100% penn. It’s not close.
Safeties/targets tough to call parts of your bio are incredible but there’s holes. Probs USC, Michigan, Northeastern - business/tech vibes are good to include.
I studied CS and happy to talk about the finance and computational path. It’s a slog but you’ll be dangerous after it
I still can’t get over the app. You have an app that’s throwing off 200k/yr? If that’s the case you have interesting paths to pursue. I’d council steer away from FAANG and IB - it’s not worth it at that point