@MYOS1634 I looked up Honors Carolina and found the folloing:
Incoming Students
Every student who is accepted for admission to Carolina is automatically considered for Honors Carolina. Students who are invited to join Honors Carolina typically receive an invitation within two weeks of being admitted to the University.
link: http://honorscarolina.unc.edu/academics/join-honors-carolina/
I think the decision was posted on the 30th so, since I will be automatically considered for Honors, they will let me know within the next two weeks. Two more questions: how is that Colgate is so successful in Wall Street being the least highly ranked of all and 2) I am on the Middlebury WL, is it worth staying over either Emory, UNC, or Wake Forest. I know it’s in the middle of nowhere and it’s ultra cold, but my high school counselor told me that it’s larger than the common LAC and its academics are totally worth the isolation
Colgate and its successes? It’s not about some ranking you may have read about. Those outcomes on Wall Street and elsewhere are due to the hard work and diligence of its students, faculty, administration, staff, Board of Trustees and alumni in executing the delivery of its mission. Location has nothing to do with it- apart maybe from the inspiration its safe and frankly beautiful campus and town afford those fortunate enough to live there and invest in it.
Good luck with your selection!
Some colleges are more -or less-successful in ib/consulting due to alumni and networking.
Middlebury is absolutely one of the power players on Wall Street, including mbb and front office. Stay on that wl if Wall Street is your goal, send a letter reiterating interest and bupdating achievements
One last thing then, put everything else aside, could you all rank Emory, UNC, Wake, Davidson, Middlebury, Colgate on their impact and representation in Wall Street? Thanks again to everyone, you have really helped me to clear things out in my mind
Sorry but I do subscribe to the value of such anecdotal rankings, whatever they might impute. Besides, what does any of that have to do with your own performance in college and your career prospects and path at this point in time?
Good luck with your selection!
Middlebury
KF, Emory, Colgate
Wake, Davidson
@markham man i am not saying rankings are everything, they are more close to being nothing. Of course your success entirely depends on your performance and effort, no matter what the university. However, there are some colleges that will assist you more than others when you have a certain goal, Wall Street in this case. Call it networking, call it reputation, call it academic quality, some are better than others. Of course at the end of the day it comes down to your effort and not the college’s name, but why don’t allow the college to help you. Anyway I understand you find it trivial, but when the differences in academics are that minor, trivial details will differentiate the colleges. @MYOS1634 thanks again
Ease of Access/ alumni representation.
Like all rankings, subjective. (We know you’d put Colgate on top, Markham).
Kf has a special relationship with Merrill Lynch for example and is better represented there than others in its category, but wouldn’t be in boutique firms.
Middlebury is a powerplayer, strong in most types of street firms, so they’re on top. Everything else is debatable.
Myos1634,
No, and as I said in a post above, I would not put Colgate on top. How did “we” decide that? I choose not to pretend that subjective rankings are useful. For example, a successful job candidate has to perform in interviews. Are you going to warrant that enrolling in a particular college is going to do the trick?
But I do like and appreciate “special relationships” and I expect, no, I hope, that qualified and interesting candidates, get fair and transparent opportunities to compete for slots at Merrill Lynch (as you mention!) as they work towards their career goals.
In the absence of any other ideas or justifications, we can wish the best for the candidate’s future - he or she has 4
years to develop his or her plans - whichever college is selected.
Good luck with your college selection!
Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work like that on ws specifically. Enrolling in a particular college does mean others don’t get a fair shot. I find that system detestable but ws snobs are perfectly fine perpetuating this unfair system. After all, ws has never been about justice, or fairness.
Never mind, then…
Here is something that the readership might find interesting when pondering these college choices:
http://news.colgate.edu/2015/04/colgate-ranks-2-in-the-nation-in-new-survey-of-college-outcomes-and-value.html/
Best of luck with your college selection!
is it worth transferring to an ivy, if yes how feasible is it?
I see we are back where we started.
just taking all options into consideration
Your plan is highly unfeasible.
I guess you could try transferring to Cornell Ilr/aem from a lac (because you’d be able to justify why you want to go there by the difference in majors and offerings) but that’s it in terms of possible (and I didn’t say likely).
You need actual reasons to transfer, and ‘Harvard is more prestigious and has a better rep on the Street’ is not it.
So, choose your college as if you were to spend four years there. Choose it because it’s a good fit and a good value, a place where you can see yourself spend four years.
thanks for the help everyone, i enrolled to UNC today!
Can you detail your thinking process, how you eliminated some choices, and ultimately what won the cup for unc ?
In any case, congratulations, and don’t forget to update your thread about your first year !
Well, I made an excel document with all the rankings for UNC, Emory and Wake Forest (i eliminated all LACs because I figured I didn’t like the small size and did not particularly care about class sizes and stuff like that). I got rankings from UNSWR, QS, AWUR, CWUR, Forbes, Times, Times Reputation and I think some more. Wake Forest was nowhere close to the rest and was the most expensive of all, so I got that out. Then I was between Emory and UNC. All rankings, except the USNWR Overall, ranked UNC and its bschool higher than Emory and its bschool. UNC was also 10K cheaper and a very good friend of mine will be attending Davidson which is like 2hours away, and given the distance from home, it’s also a factor. After putting all those together I felt as if I were missing the obvious, UNC