<p>SAT I: 2350
SAT II: 800, 800, 780, 760
GPA: 4.5/4.0 4.0/4.0
Rank: 2 (some wanker managed to squeeze in one more AP than me)</p>
<p>ECs:
-Internship at brokerage firm
-Internship at HSBC in Hong Kong
-Month-long microfinance/community service thing in Mongolia (2 summers)
-Research with Berkeley professor
-Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - volunteer/intern
-Started a investment club, won a few awards, etc.
-Speech and Debate VP, some awards here too
-President of student council
-~400 hours of community service through various clubs I'm involved in (NHS, CSF, etc.)</p>
<p>Honestly, I'm not sure those internships will help me much in terms of college apps, but I did them because they should help me land my first job</p>
<p>Essay/Recs: Essay should be very interesting/unique, I'm hoping recs are good</p>
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<p>Anyways, I will probably go into business/finance after college, so Wharton and Harvard are my top choices because of recruitment opportunities and recognition. If I don't get in I will probably go to Berkeley and save $30,000 a year. </p>
<p>what can I say? You have as close to perfect a resume as possible. But Harvard and Wharton are crazy selective. You SHOULD get in to both, ie you are very qualified for both, but whether or not they will accept you is something different. your ORM status is a bummer. good luck!</p>
<p>As far as jobs go, Unfortunately high school achievements and internships actually mean very little in terms of getting a job, basically nothing. That said, the experience you’ve gained from them coul dbe very helpful after you have a job.</p>
<p>That is true in most cases, but not for a first job. What you do in high school can hold a lot of weight when looking for jobs in college since recruiters have nothing else to go by. Most of the college students he’s competing against have practically no work experience, much less anything related to finance. </p>
<p>His resume is more impressive than that of many juniors I know. Therefore, he has a huge advantage in securing summer internships during college, which translates into a better full time offer.</p>
<p>I’m curious, why are you only applying to Wharton and Harvard? I know they are the top feeders for investment banking, but I still think you should play the odds. Princeton ORFE, for example, is also a very competitive program for banking</p>
<p>You have very good chances…but I’m sure you already knew that</p>
<p>I wish I had some of the experiences that you had especially in the financial sector. However, it is impossible to say for sure if you are in at one of the schools or not. I would say you are qualified for both though.</p>
<p>Hahah yeah I’ve been asked that a few times. I tend to see undergrad as more of a stepping stone to a first job, after which the degree becomes increasingly insignificant. I believe the benefits that Wharton and Harvard can offer make them worth the private school tuition. However, I do have some good connections in the industry, and I believe I can network my way into high finance from Haas. </p>
<p>In that sense, going to a school like Stanford (which has a recruiting bias towards engineering and the west coast) or another Ivy does not really offer me enough benefits to make it worthwhile. I also plan on getting an MBA 4-5 years after college (hopefully HWS), which will make my undergrad degree even less important. </p>
<p>That being said, I might still apply to some other top schools in case I change my mind</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses by the way, I will try to chance back when I get a chance…=]</p>
<p>Princeton will get you in to banking just as easily as Harvard/Wharton. And it will be easier to get in to banking from Columbia or Penn CAS than it will be from Berkeley. </p>
<p>Also, the asian/male/california pool is insanely competitive for both Harvard and Wharton. Qualified? Yes, but anything can happen. Also, you’re clearly the same person who got owned on the Penn board earlier this year by posting tons of lies and BS.</p>
<p>You’re a high school student; there’s no way you were an analyst at HSBC in Hong Kong. If you were a paper boy, specify. You’re misleading your readers. If you were indeed something along the lines of a paper boy, that changes things–and makes your resume more believable. Even then, I have a hard time believing that you worked at a brokerage firm, HSBC Hong Kong, a microfinance firm in Mongolia twice, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco–all as a high school student in the space of 3 summers.</p>
<p>Yeah, you’re full of ****. If not, enjoy Harvard or Wharton. </p>
<p>But I must warn you that the adcoms at a business school or any prestigious university are quite good at detecting ********. Do a better job of masking it on your real application than you have here, or else you will definitely see two rejection letters in April.</p>
<p>The brokerage thing isn’t that hard, I worked at etrade during the school year and Merrill asset management over the summer (both in high school)</p>
<p>Yes, how the hell did you get those internships during high school? I’m a sophomore Econ major at Princeton and I think I would have some difficulty getting an internship in Hong Kong if I wanted.</p>
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<p>Totally off. High school achievements are not as important as college achievements for the first job, BUT the internships you do in high school will help tremendously when trying to get extremely competitive internships during high school. And those internships will lead to jobs.</p>
<p>Everything you do builds off of other stuff you did.</p>
<p>And I agree that being an ORFE/Econ major at Princeton would be just as good as being a Harvard/Wharton student :)</p>
<p>More on topic: I predict you will get into Wharton, but not so sure about Harvard. Wharton’s relatively easy to get into in my opinion compared to HYP lol (here comes the flames - it’s true though, check out the acceptance rates).</p>
<p>To clarify: I don’t think the jobs themselves are that difficult to get, with the exception of HSBC in Hong Kong. I don’t buy that for one second.</p>
<p>My real beef is the sheer volume of internships this guy claims to have had in freshman - junior years. It’s virtually impossible. If it’s real, though, you will get into Wharton for sure.</p>