<p>I'm a freshman at binghamton university, and i want to transfer to Columbia for my junior year. I'm into business and i am wondering which school i should apply for business/finance program??</p>
<p>Classes that typically do not transfer include theology, music, studio art, business, geography, communications, or remedial classes.</p>
<p>So your business classes won’t transfer.
The closest thing at Columbia is the financial economics program, but there’s no business or finance undergrad program.</p>
<p>i wanted to do investment banking right after i get out school(undergrad). I was told that transfer to Columbia might actually help cause most investment banks recruit student there. so Columbia doesn’t even have an economic major for undergrad??</p>
<p>Yes, there is an economics major at Columbia. In fact, in the last few months, I believe, a financial economics major was created. Others will know more about that, but you can find it all on the Columbia website.</p>
<p>I never said there wasn’t an economics major - there is. There’s also financial economics (and any number of dual economics majors).</p>
<p>However, there are no business or finance majors.</p>
<p>and to further note - columbia prefers students who transfer after their first year. it just makes it easier for those students to be admitted, enter columbia, and become part of the culture.</p>
<p>transferring to columbia is not good for -
- folks that want a more prestigious university
- folks that don’t like their current school
- individuals who are unaware of what columbia offers, and especially are unaware that they have to take columbia’s core.</p>
<p>there are other fantastic schools to consider transferring to. and frankly binghamton is a great school (if not in a great place). and there are other things in finance besides investment banking, you should start by learning about that. the vast majority of columbia students are not recruited for investment banking - IB is a small subset of a larger world of finance. if your goal is to make a lot of money, you can and will if you work hard, but learn more about what there is to offer and what is a good fit. not everyone is built to work 100-120 hrs a week for two years in a row.</p>
<p>you are right about this transfer thing. Actually, I love Binghamton that I made a lot of friends here.Getting into Ivy league or IB target schools would pave the way for my career in IB. Regardless what my major is. However, money is not the only reason I want to do IB. When I first learned about IB, it was nothing but money that grabbed my attention. The more I read about IB, the more i love it. I know career in IB= NO LIFE for the first two years, but it comes with big money and challenges.</p>
<p>ok - the more you read about it, the more you love it? you’ll have to explain that one for me. and why IB and not other parts of finance.</p>
<p>and there are a lot of careers that offer big money and challenges, many in which you have no life for the first two years. but IB, especially at a bulge bank, is highly competitive, even getting into columbia does not assure you will get an offer. </p>
<p>in any case, columbia is overrun with finance types, many with ridiculous resumes. it would take a lot as a transfer applicant to convince admissions that columbia needs another kid who wants to shoot for IB. so have that in mind as you apply. and it will be tough even if you are admitted to columbia to then stand out (remember you’ll have less than 5 mths from when you step on campus to summer analyst interviews) from the crowd.</p>
<p>and of the schools that are IB target schools, two of them don’t have transfer admissions, two of them admit like 10 people, and the rest have exceedingly low transfer rates. in the end you will have to realize that the likelihood of getting into one of these target schools is remote, that finance is more than just IB, so although you might not get your dream job at first, you can transfer within banks once you show promise.</p>
<p>i don’t doubt what you want to do, but being realistic about the chances will allow you to make a plan of action on how to achieve that dream. some of the smartest, most creative and involved leaders i knew at columbia were not even given an interview for IB places - so you got some ways to go yet.</p>
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<p>From what I’ve seen, they usually go into consulting, no?</p>
<p>I don’t think you should specify what you are going to do on any apps. Pursuing an econ major is fine, what you do career wise is your concern. Apply to Columbia College (econ) or SEAS (financial engineering).</p>
<p>I would also advise broadening your horizon for potential schools. Columbia (and the Ivies in general + MIT, Stanford, Duke) are going to be tough to transfer into. I would look at Cornell (the least selective transfer Ivy), Northwestern, and Michigan as feeder schools to IB that are less selective for transfers.</p>