<p>Which schools are good finance schools like NYU Stern Business School, Villanova Business School, and BU but are more reasonable than Ivies in getting into? It would be good if they are good for internships. My SAT is 2010 (retaking aiming for 2200+) and gpa 4.0 uw and 4.8 weighted. Thanks!</p>
<p>These are the specifics: My SAT scores are 640W, 700M, and 670R. I will be retaking it very soon. I have a 4.0 unweighted GPA and 4.6 GPA (I have a 4.8 by the end of senior year if I get straight A’s).
I haven’t taken any SAT 2’s yet. I will end up with 11-12 AP’s by the end of senior year. I will be ranked 1 by the end of senior year.</p>
<p>My extracurriculars include:
- Playing the piano for over 12 years (winning awards state and region wide, the competition is recognized by all colleges, I will probably be submitting an audition tape)
- President of a financial club that I founded since the end of sophomore year
- Secretary/VP of a Chinese cultural club I help founded junior year
- Science Olympiad contestant (won state last year with team, placed in events, possibly going to nationals this year)
- DECA/FBLA (placing in state, hopefully going to nationals this year)
- Volunteer (hopefully over 100+ hours at library by end of senior year, help manage reselling discards)
- Key Club member
Most of my clubs I have been participating since freshman or sophomore year. I might be officer of another club next year.</p>
<p>My recommendations should be decent to excellent and my essay will probably be decent (optimistically haha). My passion for the piano and finance will probably be the centers of my essays.</p>
<p>UMichigan has a top notch business program, ross
Carnegie Mellon, also great
MIT sloan, incredible
UC Berkeley, great</p>
<p>Do you think I have a chance at them?</p>
<p>The question is what can your family afford? Some of the colleges mentioned are public Us with very competitive merit aid at which you would most likely be a full pay student ($55K/year).</p>
<p>I don’t have too much of a limit of what I can afford (willing to go into debt which is probably a realllllly bad choice but yep).</p>
<p>The only debt YOU can take on are Stafford loans which total $27K over the four years of college. Anything above that will be debt for your parents.</p>
<p>Unless you are in-state for one of them, Michigan and Berkeley will only likely provide loans as aid. Your GPA is exceptional but for some of the schools mentioned your SATs are average or below (e.g. MIT, Carnegie-Mellon). </p>
<p>Did you mean BU or BC? BU is probably a safety whereas BC-Carroll School is probably a reach without the 2200 SAT. Additionally BC is getting a reputation (like NYU) of being cheap with fin aid.</p>
<p>Consider Indiana-Bloomington or Richmond as possible matches with a chance at merit aid.</p>
<p>USC (Southern Cal) is a possibility though aid can be all over the map with them.</p>
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<p>This is not a very good list based on OP’s situation.
OP doesn’t have the stats to get into MIT. Michigan and Berkeley are OOS and won’t give him any money. Not to also mention that they are 2/3 year programs so it’s not worth the risk if b-school is the focus. It would help a lot if he gave a clearer financial picture.</p>
<p>I would keep CMU and Villanova, consider Emory, Boston College, Richmond, Lehigh, Indiana.</p>
<p>Oh yeah thanks guys so far! Also awww man I know my parents have saved up but probably not enough for 4 years. Also icheetah if I upped my SAT to 2200+ would i have a better chance? And what do you mean by financial picture? Im a junior by the way</p>
<p>Boston College
Northeastern
Wake Forest
Villanova</p>
<p>Look at Fordham - it is in NYC so it is good for internships and you may qualify for merit aid with your SATs. Also consider the good options posted by others.</p>
<p>Thanks so far for the replies</p>