<p>My school doesn't use GPA on a 4.0 scale, but my weighted GPA is 106.28 and unweighted is 94.8. I am a junior taking four APs:
AP Calc AB, AP Chemistry, AP Micro/Macro Economics, and AP Language and Composition.
I got a 2130 on my first try at SATs (I am taking it again). CR:670; Math:720; Writing:740.
I will take Math II and Chemistry subject tests again because i got a 720 on both the first time.
I play soccer for the high school team and a club team, am the treasurer of UNICEF Club and apart of FBLA. I did the J&J TAP Program and am applying for an internship with a CPA. I want to major in finance and do my MBA and go to UPenn (it's a reach school) and some of the other colleges I am looking at are Georgetown, LeHigh University, Emory, University of Virginia, and Northwestern.
What else should I do? And are there any other recommendations for colleges with a good finance program?</p>
<p>There are hundreds. Go to the CC SuperMatch and plug in your data and you will receive the names of lots of schools where you could get an education. </p>
<p>But at the same time, you need to find a place where you fit. The first issue of fit is financial. You need to find a school which you and your family can afford: run the “net price calculator” at several different kinds of schools and get a sense of what your family will be expected to pay. Can/will your parents pay this much? Their response to these questions will help to remove a lot of schools from the list.</p>
<p>In addition, what kind of school do you see yourself attending? what kind of sports programs? should the male/female be around 50/50? do you like the Greek scene? etc. You need these answers as well. </p>
<p>You haven’t given us this info, so it’s hard to know what to recommend out of the hundreds.</p>
<p>I just did the CC SuperMatch. Some colleges I pinned were USC, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and Villanova.
I want a rural setting, but it’s not that important. I am not planning on playing sports in college and I want a college that is coed. However, the main focus is a college with a strong finance program and preferably, an undergrad business school. My parents will not spend over $60k per year. </p>
<p>^^^well, I should hope not. Even spending just 60K/year you could go free-to-you to almost every school next year.</p>
<p>You have the grades and financial resources to go to most schools. if you kick up your SATs to about 2300, even some schools that are reaches for everyone might look at your ability to pay full freight and accept you. I don’t think you’ll have problems finding schools that are matches and reaches. So let me say something about safeties.</p>
<p>Whatever safeties you choose, you should be a shoo-in academically and financially, but they should also be schools that you would want to go if it should come to that AND they should be schools that don’t give a hoot about whether students are interested in attending them. State schools can usually be counted on as safeties, in your case, but you can spread your net wider. My D made the mistake of having three safeties and getting into only one of them because two of the schools were concerned about her interest (her scores were akin to yours). Then she decided she didn’t want to spend that much money on the one safety she had. </p>
<p>In addition to what you found, Notre Dame, UNC-CH, Washington and Lee, Richmond, Tulane, Case Western, Georgia, UMD, NYU, Villanova, Clemson, WashU, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, UIUC, BU, and Bucknell. I have no affiliation with any of these schools, except UMD where my S goes.</p>
<p>when you say “finance”, what exactly do you mean? If you mean Ibanking, then the choice gets smaller. If you mean anything in finance, then it gets much larger.</p>
<p>There’s a recent thread about Villanova being stingy with aid (even merit, not just need based) so that might be a consideration even though your parents can pay pretty good amount - you still should be able to get decent merit for your stats (why be full pay when you don’t need to?)</p>
<p>If you want finance then I’d omit any colleges that do not have undergraduate business schools. You can look at the USNWR rankings of undergraduate business schools to get some ideas (I don’t put a ton of stock in the rankings but it is a good list of schools). Offhand I’d consider BC (located in suburbs of Boston, not right in the city), Villanova, Notre Dame, UNC, UMichigan (although unless you get a preferred admit to Ross you have to apply for the business school as a sophomore and it is competitive), USC, UNC, UVa, Lehigh, Emory, Cornell, William & Mary to name a few. You should have a lot of strong choices.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help! I’m planning on taking the SATs again in June or October to boost my score after taking a course recommended by friend who got a 2350. The main safety school I have in mind is Rutgers, which is only around $20K and I live in NJ. MYOS1634: I want a general finance degree and then do my MBA. </p>
<p>Does anyone have advice on what more extracurriculars could I do? </p>
<p>correction: I’m not sure why I suggested Bucknell. It lacks a finance major.</p>