<p>hmm, also, what is a LAC?</p>
<p>Hey, boxesarefun, what school do you go to? I go to a top 5 public in NJ, too (but not yours cause we don't have AP Econ or AP Physics C and my Amnesty isn't doing a film festival this year).</p>
<p>LAC = liberal arts college. They're smaller than research or state universities and I think they rarely have grad programs (or very small ones if they do). Examples include Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, Pomona, Bates, Middlebury.</p>
<p>And btw Chicago is unbeatable for econ. Wharton is definitely awesome for finance, but it doesn't have an econ major (it's in the College instead).</p>
<p>Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Stanford - crapshoot
Penn (College) - reach (my friend got rejected ED - not even deferred - with a 2280, good recs, a solid GPA, but only one big EC, soccer)
Penn (Wharton) - far, far reach
Northwestern - good match
Georgetown - good match
Chicago - almost TOTALLY based on your essays
Berkeley - good match
Rutgers - super safety
UNC - safety</p>
<p>uchicago might possibly be the most depressing school on this planet.</p>
<p>at a conference we went to on the last night whilst all the other teams were partying in our hotel their team was getting stressed cos one of their team members might not have won an award (which was to be announced the next morning). i couldnt believe it. what a depressing mentality. but im sure their academics are first rate. just be prepared to give up fun.</p>
<p>I have heard bad things about U Chicago's social scene..but it can't be all bad can it? I mean..Chicago is a big city. I'm going to visit over the summe probably, so we'll see then..</p>
<p>Although I agree that Duke is a great institution, all of the big banks come to campus at Yale and Harvard, which is not true of the other universities that have been discussed here. Virtually all of the banks do on-campus recruiting at all of the Ivies, and less so at Duke - not that this should discourage you from applying to Duke, because clearly it's not too hard to arrange for a few interviews in New York.</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.tumr.com/view/?id=20&app=college%5DNash%5B/url">http://www.tumr.com/view/?id=20&app=college]Nash[/url</a>]</p>
<p>I've been doing some research, and Penn's M&T program seems to be pretty awesome. What are my chances of getting into M&T?</p>
<p>And an update, we took a practice AP Chem test today, and I scored a 5. My teacher said that this practice test is generally a really good indicator of what we'll get on the real test on wednesday.</p>
<p>hello..anyone there?</p>
<p>i'llbeback,</p>
<p>Goldman Sachs hires more from Penn Wharton than Duke. I want to point that out to you as some of your folks wrongly claimed GS hires more at Duke and any other campus. That GS being their 2nd biggest employer doesn't necessarily mean they hires a lot of students there either. Duke's econ is good but not elite.</p>