Too many reaches?

College Search & Selection
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<p>So far, I am looking to apply to these schools:
Dartmouth
Duke
Cornell
Northwestern
Rice
Georgetown
NYU
UMichigan
UVA
UT
SMU</p>

<p>Do I have too many schools and too many reaches?</p>

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<p>Here’s my stats:</p>

<p>Gender: M
Race: Asian
Location: Competitive public school in Texas
Major: Business or Econ</p>

<p>SAT I: 2000- not going to send it</p>

<p>ACT: 33 composite
32 English
35 Math
34 Reading
32 science
9 essay</p>

<p>SAT II: Math Level II-760; us history-670 (retaking)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.82 unweighted, 4.23 weighted
Rank: 56/960 (will likely go up a little because of junior year)
Top 6% right now
Schedule: Most rigorous, 11 AP completed by senior year</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>DECA- Event Coordinator- Won at state, qualified for nationals
Students Organizing Community Outreach- Secretary
Youth group at my temple- help with various community activities
Habitat for Humanity- VP
NHS
Mu Alpha Theta</p>

<p>I also play table tennis competitively. A few awards.< one national award…
An FBLA competition event award.</p>

<p>Volunteer at an assisted living facility
Volunteer at my city’s therapeutic recreation for kids</p>

<p>And I skipped tenth grade, don’t know how they view that.</p>

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<p>If you’re happy with the schools from NYU down, and can afford them, you’re fine.</p>

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<p>Well UT is the only one guaranteed I can afford, and I’m pretty sure SMU will give me some money. The others are a shot in the dark in terms of FA, but if it doesn’t work out, I’ll be fine with UT.</p>

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<p>If you’re OOS for Michigan you won’t get money there and it’s almost as expensive as a private college. Maybe replace it with a school that meets need less competitive than your others that do?</p>

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<p>hmom, can you give me any suggestions on schools that are less selective than my top choices but still can have decent placement into finance, ibanking, or consulting?</p>

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<p>George Washington U would be a good safe school, and it does give out merit money. It has a good finance department. U Chicago is another good choice</p>

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<p>Kelley at Indiana…</p>

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<p>Ah, an age old question. Frankly, they don’t exist.</p>

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<p>hmom5 is wrong and is most likely another person that believes the higher ranked schools are the only ones that have good job placements in these fields. </p>

<p>Umiami
BU
Penn state
UNC Chapel Hill
College of W&M
Syracuse
Lehigh
Wake Forest
Villanova</p>

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<p>Are we talking front office or back?</p>

<p>I spent 3 decades on Wall Street and am married to a partner in a top management consulting firm. If there are many lurking from those schools in these fields, they’ve been hiding from me!</p>

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<p>“Are we talking front office or back?”</p>

<p>You’re not cute at all.</p>

<p>“I spent 3 decades on Wall Street and am married to a partner in a top management consulting firm. If there are many lurking from those schools in these fields, they’ve been hiding from me!”</p>

<p>Oh yeah. Makes sense. You’ve not only worked at every wall street firm but asked every single person there where they went to college. hmom5, lets get back to reality.</p>

<p>With the exception of maybe Goldman Sachs which is generally exclusive to those who went to Ivy leagues or peer schools, most firms don’t mind that you didn’t go to a top 20 business school. As long as you went to a descent enough b-school and came out with outstanding grades, then you shouldn’t be at a disadvantage.</p>

<p>You should try asking your “significant other” for verification on what I said.</p>

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<p>Well I guess like a top 30, 35? school that isn’t as selective as the ivies and Duke, Georgetown type schools.</p>

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<p>As a matter of curiosity, House of London, how many years have you worked on Wall Street?</p>

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<p>I’m fairly certain we both know the answer to that Consolation.</p>

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<p>I was not attempting to be cute. WS offers many high quality back office positions to kids from many colleges. However at all top firms, there is an enormous advantage to going to a top college for a front office position.</p>

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<p>We have had kids asking us this very question weekly for decades. I know the answer.</p>

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<p>“As a matter of curiosity, House of London, how many years have you worked on Wall Street?”</p>

<p>Consolation, this case isn’t about experience but rather common sense and data. </p>

<p>“there is an enormous advantage to going to a top college for a front office position.”</p>

<p>No one is doubting that but please make reference to my previous post. Here, I’ll make it easy for you:
“As long as you went to a descent enough b-school and came out with outstanding grades, then you shouldn’t be at a disadvantage.”</p>

<p>"I know the answer. "</p>

<p>You make a compelling case.</p>

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<p>Might look at Holy Cross and Colgate-2 very good LAC’s with great alumni networks.</p>

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<p>hmom5, i am not interested in these fields, but obviously you are over-simplifying the situation. All your posts make it sound like non-ivies don’t get good jobs. We all know this is not the case. My aunt graduated from a city college and doesnt even have an MBA and she is in charge of recruiting for a major credit card company. People do well coming out of schools at all levels, obviously top-level schools provide more opportunities, but don’t act like its ivy or bust. </p>

<p>Also, i see no reason someone with an undergrad degree from a decent school and an MBA from harvard or chicago would be any less desirable than the next harvard or chicago MBA.</p>

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<p>I think at this point we can discount the majority of hmom5’s posts.</p>

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<p>hmom5, its pretty clear from all the posts ive seen of yours that you went to a top university, just out of curiosit where specifically did you graduate from?</p>