in a complex situation and need a plan

Transfer Students
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<p>so here is the deal...</p>

<p>I want to trade on wall street at a top bank right out of college. I am an incoming freshmen to the humanities college at Carnegie Mellon. I got in a scholars program which accepts 20 out of however many kids there are in the humanities school(1,000+) who CMU thinks will excel in humanities</p>

<p>It will not be easy to get a top trading job coming from CMU... most CMU kids work in operations or as quants on wall st... so i want to transfer
now here is the complex part... I was very lucky to get into CMU at all(I was even rejected by uwisc-madison)
I graduated the top THIRD of my typical public HS(I had family problems to explain that though) and I got lazy my senior year and pulled straight B's
SAT: 740M 760V 700W
SATII: 800MathII 780Phys
average ec's</p>

<p>Do you think it will be possible for me to transfer into a target school for ibanks(cornell, uchicago,columbia,etc) after my freshman year at CMU if I do very well?</p>

<p>if i dont transfer after my freshmen year I can apply to Tepper at CMU.. but that limits my transfer option to like one or two biz schools as a junior.. or i can stay in the humanities college at CMU as a soph but then if i cant transfer out of CMU as a junior it will be hard to transfer to Tepper and graduate on time</p>

<p>what do you guys think</p>

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<p>Wat college within Cornell? I think if u excel at CMU u'd have a chance (along with being a fit)</p>

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<p>either the humanities college or AEM.. i really dont know much about cornell.. I would go anywhere that i could get the job I want and study something i like(which is almost anything)</p>

<p>would I be able to transfer after my freshmen year and have a good shot though? all they would see are my ****ty HS grades and one semester of a 4.0 at CMU</p>

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<p>Going to business school isn't going to make you a trader either. Undergraduate business will most likely get you into consulting or investment banking. You actually need amazing math skills to become a trader actually.</p>

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<p>well i have amazing math skills.. actually i have amazing physics skills which seems even more suited to trading than does pure math</p>

<p>so what should i do.. if i was at harvard or something i would major in physics but i was told that since i am not at a HYPS to major in something that will help prepare me for my occupation</p>

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<p>what about stern, i know they place a lot of kids into ibanking, not sure about trading.</p>

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<p>is uchicago that good for wall street?</p>

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<p>uchicago has one of the best, if not THE best econ program in the nation</p>

<p>so yes, from what i understand many firms go there to recruit for ibanking and trading and consulting</p>

<p>and Stern would probably be better than Tepper but do I have a real chance applying to any of these schools after one semester?</p>