Got your attention? Help me come up with a college list please!!

<p>I was wondering if you guys could help me come up with a good list of colleges. I've been recently looking at going into either consulting or investment banking, so I was wondering if you guys could help me come up with a good list of reaches, matches, safeties that would still give me a chance of getting a job in one of these competitive fields.</p>

<p>I'm not really into wharton, harvard, princeton, yale, stanford and such, so here are some schools I am VERY interested in as reaches: Northwestern and Cornell (my dream schools), Duke, Virginia, UCLA, UC-Berkeley, UNC-Chapel Hill. I obviously can't apply to all of these because then I wouldn't get in anywhere lol. So given my stats, can you help me come up with some schools that I can get into, but still have solid I-banking/consulting placement programs?</p>

<p>Stats:
demographics:
*I am an Asian Indian Male
*From a competitive public high school in Oregon: Beaverton High School, which was also rated the best AP school in Oregon, so yeah, its a smart school. (On top of that, our graduating class is rumored to be the best class of all time!!)
*student body at school = 500+</p>

<p>The Numbers/ECs
*ACT Composite 30 (8/12 on essay :( :()</p>

<p>-English 30 (Usage/Mechanics 15 Rhetorical Skills 16)
-Science 24 (ouch..my chances)
-Reading 31 (Social Studies/Science 17 Arts/Literature 15)
-Mathematics 34
(Pre-Algebra/Elementary Algebra 18
Int.Algebra/Coord.Geometry 16 (ouch)
Plane Geometry/Trigonometry 18)</p>

<p>*Freshman year:
Language Arts (Honors): A/A
Social Studies 9: A/A
Advanced Algebra 2: A/A
Bio/Chem/Phys 10 (Honors): A/A
SAT Math Prep: A
SAT Verbal Prep:A
Spanish 1:A/A
Team Sports:A
Health 1:A
Web Design:A
Computer Programming:A</p>

<p>*Sophomore Year:
AP Chem: B/A
Lit Comp 10 (Honors): A/A
Physics 2: A/A
Pre-Calc: A/B
Social Studies 10 :B/A (can explain this B)
Spanish 2:A/A
Symphonic Band: A/A
Team Sports: A
Health 2: A</p>

<p>*Junior Year (...so far)
Human Anatomy: A/A
IB Biology: A/A
Spanish 3: A/A
IB Calculus: A/A
IB Psychology: A/B
Team Sports: A
IB Seminar: P
IB English: A/(A or B)
IB TOK 1: B</p>

<p>In summary: I currently have a 3.923, but it will probably slide to around a 3.88 or so because I did bad this semester</p>

<p>*I'm right now top 5%, will probably end up somewhere in top 10% unweighted.
*IB Diploma Candidate
*NHS (2 years)
*Might get internship at OHSU during this summer
*Varsity tennis 4 years (will have 4) (possibly captain next season)
*Science Team 4 years (will have 4)
*World Quest Trivia 4 years (will have 4)
*Science Club Treasurer (1 year)
*Science Club VP (2 years)
*Math Club (4 years) (VP 2 years)
*Portland Youth Philharmonic (2 years)
*Mathfest Algebra 2 1st place freshman year
*Oregon Invitational of Mathematics Tournament Participant Fresh Year
*Mathfest Participant (will have 4 years)
*6th Place at World Quest out of 32 10th grade
*Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Rising Star Program (will have 150-175 volunteer hours done)
*Mathcounts Tutor (about 50+ volunteer hours)
*Model UN (1 year, but should be able to get leadership position in it)</p>

<p>For less of reach schools, I was thinking of places like USC, Michigan, and Emory, but are there any "safe" schools that are still good for I-banking?</p>

<p>thanks in advance guys!!</p>

<p>Amherst - may be a bit of a reach with ur test scores</p>

<p>bump bump bump</p>

<p>Here is the problem. You can have a good career in management consulting without a prestigious undergrad degree. What you know will eventually be more important than where you learned it. The same is true in the corporate world and behind the scenes jobs at brokerage houses and investment banks e.g. as a trader. You can go on from any school you have mentioned to a great graduate school and a great academic career at some business school. Unfortunately, investment banking is an extremely credential and image conscious world, in which many people stop with an undergraduate degree. I don't mean to be cynical but it is a tough row to hoe. The schools you say you are not interested in are the main gateways to investment banking. I'm not saying it's impossible just hard without them.</p>