<p>Hey CC, my dream job is to be an investment banker. Due to money issues, these are the top 3 schools that I can afford. I am from Massachusetts, white male, 2020 SAT 4.0 GPA, football/track team captain etc...</p>
<p>I've been accepted into all of these school's business schools (Isenberg, Fisher, Smeal), but I want to know which would make the most sense to attend. I want to be able to network efficiently, possibly transfer into a more elite school by my junior year, and eventually land a job as an investment banker. </p>
<p>Anyone out there wanna give me some advice?</p>
<p>None of these are targets and your odds of transferring into a target are very slim. (Few students leave or drop out of the colleges called “targets” in IB).
Your best bet would be transferring into Georgetown perhaps?
Have you also been admitted to the Honors College at any of those schools? Or is there one with an easier “pathway” to get into the Honors College after your first semester freshman year?</p>
<p>Assume that you’ll make high enough grades to transfer into Georgetown: you’d need to be able to pay full costs (no financial aid for transfers), which means you’d need to take the cheapest 2 years. However these cheapest two years, probably UMass, would also need to show you can handle a challenge academically speaking. </p>
<p>Smeal would be a safer bet if you don’t/can’t transfer since it’s heavily recruited (not for IB though) and Penn State is supposed to have the#1 alumni network in the country so certainly some of these alumni would be working in backoffice and even frontoffice finance. It’s also likely to be much more expensive than UMass, hence even if you could transfer (and Smeal is better than Isenberg) you probably wouldn’t be able to afford Georgetown.</p>
<p>Did you apply to Kelley?</p>
<p>No I did not apply to Kelley. What about completing my undergrad education with superior grades and then go straight for my MBA at a target school? Would this be the best path to follow?</p>
<p>You cannot go straight into an MBA. MBA’s are for professionals, so all accredited programs require 2-5 years of work experience in order to admit you.
There’s a subsection on this website dedicated to Ibanking if you’re interested.</p>
<p>Ok I’ll check it out, thanks for all the advice!</p>