Transfer Student- Chances if Any?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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I applied as an Econ Major.

Goals: Trying to be an ibanker

Stats:

Age: 16

Ethnicity: African American (Cape Town, South Africa), Pacific Islander (Fiji), Caucasian (Middle Eastern).

Awesome Letter of Recs from Professors

Time in College: Almost 2 semesters

Attending to CCs at the same time

Cum. College GPA: 4.0

Total Units Completed in College: 45 units

List of College Course Work:
General Introductory Psyc 3.00
Principles of Macroeconomics 3.00
Freshman Composition 4.00
Analytic Geom & Calc I 4.00
Elementary Spanish 5.00
Fund/Small Group Communic 3.00
Principles of Microeconomics 3.00
Critical/Argumentative Wrt 3.00
Analytic Geom & Calc II 4.00
Intro to Philosophy 3.00
Elementary Spanish II 5.00
Basic Training & Physical Cond 1.00
Restorative Yoga 1.00
Swimming, Novice 1.00
Circuit Weight Training,Int/Ad 2.00

College Credit from HS: 3 units

SAT: 1850

HS: Graduated in 10th grade by taking an exit exam.

HS GPA: 3.1

Extra Curricular Activities:

  1. Volunteered in an after school tutoring program in HS for a year where I spent at least 5 hours a week tutoring students.
  2. Volunteered for this tutoring program where I taught students Arabic as well as helped them with their HW. I did this for 3 years straight, 12 hours a week.
  3. Volunteered in a college event last semester where I modeled for this International Culture Event. I dressed up as would a chief of an indigenous tribe in Mexico.
  4. Volunteered in a college event this semester where I gave a lecture on Jiro Dreams of Sushi.

Work Experience:

  1. For the past year, I have managed an after school tutoring program. I supervised tutors. I also cold called potential clients as to expand the program. Marginal Analysis was part of my job as well. I spent 20 hours per week.
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You have excellent credentials since HS to succeed as a transfer applicant. However, your HS GPA and SAT scores are relatively very low. Since you left HS for college at 16 this might be somewhat overlooked. Even so, you might get admitted as a transfer then struggle to get high GPA which is necessary even at a target school to get ibank recruiting. Recommend you check out the site Wall Street Oasis which is focused on ibanking. Most of the advice there for someone in your situation boils down to: get into a target school at all costs. It is possible but very challenging to break in from a non-target.

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Graduate College get some work experience and then shoot for graduate school