Recently I posted a thread asking if college admission really were a “crapshoot” or not. Something I picked up was that it isn’t so long as you understand what specific colleges look for. So now my questions is what do the following colleges look for? When I ask this I’m looking for ECs, specific courses they’d like students to take in hs, personality, interests, and so on. Anything advise helps. Also I aim for majoring in accounting or finance. My dream is to work for Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst or mostly and place on Wall Street in case this helps in anyway.
Carnegie Mellon
U of I Urbana- Champaign
Indiana University(Kelley Direct Admit hopefully)
UMich(Ross preferred admit)
NYU(Stern)
UPenn
Purdue
U of T Austin
WashU
Thank you in advance for you comments!
P.S. This isn’t my list, I realize over half of these are reaches for virtually every student.
For Kelley, if you have a 3.8 Weighted with a 30ACT or the equivalent for SAT, you automatically get in. If not, you have to petition to get in which is a harder more unlikely thing to do
You should take time to organize. Google the common data sets for all those. The info you need is in Section C of each. Then READ the items on their admissions pages – that’s not too much to ask.
I can tell you that the evaluation criteria for them vary (e.g. Purdue only recently started accepting an essay-- they’re not that holistic and are much more stats based). You should make a spreadsheet and look at them in aggregate.
Asking for peoples’ anecdotes is not a good way to go about this. If you’re a wannabe top business major, start making a habit of gathering data to analyze. Good luck!