<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I am an incoming senior making a college list.
My SAT score is 2300 with all honors and AP classes (mostly Bs with a few As) which is approximately an unweighted GPA of 3.8
I am National Honor society and class president with some other less important leadership positions
I am interested in studying finance and minoring in IR or computer science.
Any recommendations?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
<p>Do you need financial aid/merit aid, or are you full pay? Male or female? What geographic area? Urban, suburban. or rural? Small or large college?</p>
<p>Also what state are you in, and do you like your state flagship?</p>
<p>Home state? Large/Small/Urban/Rural/Religious?? #1 Question, how much can your parents afford?? Answer these questions, then the CC’s can help.</p>
<p>Im from massachusetts
My parents can pay I do not think I will need financial aid in any form.
Im male and location is not super important to me I just do not want to be in the middle of nowhere</p>
<p>OK so location is pretty important. You really have no idea at this point in time? Sounds like you may be eligible for most anywhere. So time to quickly develop some personal criteria or do some learning real quick. If you want to study finance because you want to work in IB or consulting, read the forums to learn about target schools.</p>
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<p>Thank you!
As you can probably tell I am very new to this site as well as college research in general so the help is much appreciated</p>
<p>All right, Mass (home state represent)! If you need a true safety, UMass Amherst is pretty all right, but I can see you want to do better. Anyways, I’m also interested in finance/IB, but most schools don’t offer finance as an undergraduate major, so many choose to major in economics or applied math-economics instead.</p>
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<p>There are multiple threads about target schools for IB. Generally all of the Ivies (to varying degrees), </p>
<p>Since you’re full pay, I encourage you to apply to UMich early, and applying preadmit into their business school, Ross. Ross (or even the college of LSA) generally places their students very well into IB.</p>
<p>Schools of Interest for IB
The Ivy League:
Harvard and Penn-Wharton seem to place best, Dartmouth, Yale and Princeton also place very well). Cornell has AEMand regular Penn undergraduate is still good. People say Brown is the “worst” of the Ivies for placement into IB but I think that’s only because less people at Brown want to go into finance. Most of these schools don’t offer finance, or offer a certificate of some sort, or a finance track, or applied mathematics-economics. I wouldn’t apply to all of them, mind you, maybe a few that you like the best that you think fit you well.</p>
<p>Other “Top” Non-Ivy Schools:
Northwestern. Chicago. Stanford. MIT. Duke. All place well in IB, but I think they are all vastly different in culture, and you should pick a couple that fit you and your desires in a school.</p>
<p>Public Schools:
UMich Ross and UC Berkeley Haas come to mind. Also, UCLA, UNC and UVA are all worth a look. You’ll probably get into UMich if you apply early, but it’s harder to get into Ross, the business school, but you should apply preferred admission. You have the stats to get into UC Berkeley and UCLA. UNC and UVA probably don’t place as well as UMich, so you might not have to apply, but are worth a look. They’re also probably harder to get into than Mich since they accept less out of state students than Mich.</p>
<p>Other Good Schools:
Georgetown (better check if you meet the stringent subject test requirement); also they have their own app which is a little obnoxious. Their IR program is one of the best. CMU’s good, too, but probably better if you want to straight up do computer science.</p>
<p>Schools that you’ll probably get in to:
BC (check your Naviance scattergram), BU, GWU.</p>
<p>And UMass Amherst if you need a true safety.</p>
<p>I left out a lot of the top liberal arts colleges which still place very well, but they are very small, unless that’s your thing.</p>
<p>Tufts, Holy Cross, Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Thank you all for your help!
Does anyone know how selective stern is? Or Wash U?
I really liked BC and Tufts and I be applying to Umass as a safety. I do not know if my GPA is ivy leauge worthy so I probably will not be applying to many ivy leauge schools.</p>
<p>Stern is around 20%
Wash U is like 17%
There is no finance at Tufts.</p>
<p>If there is no finance program is an economics program with a finance track just as good for an IB job?</p>
<p>^ Yes. As long as the school is a “target school”, it doesn’t matter if no direct finance major is offered. Economics is good enough. You should still consider UMich if you aren’t!</p>
<p>Just curious, how do you have an unweighted GPA of 3.8 with mostly Bs and a few As? Are you on a 5 point scale? Or is that your weighted GPA?</p>
<p>Holy Cross has a fantastic alumni network and 1 subgroup focused on Wall Street and NY finance jobs.</p>
<p>Stern is 17% including ED& RD and they are much more lenient with ED as they try to fill about 30% of the class from the ED pool.</p>
<p>I would presume ED rate is probably around 21-22% and RD is probably around 12-13%.</p>
<p>The best schools for Finance (IB, S&T, ER, AM, HF, PE) is </p>
<p>Harvard, Wharton, Stern, Ross, Haas, Dartmouth, Duke, Georgetown, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia </p>
<p>There are a couple others that are good as well, but the above are probably the most represented schools on the street. Also all the schools with good business also have the same recruiting for their regular CAS programs.</p>
<p>How is your GPA a 3.8 if you have mostly B’s? Also, what is you rank to put that 3.8 into perspective</p>
<p>I have added Umich to list! Thank you qwertyzxc for that list!! Par72 I will look into Holy Cross thanks!
Intparent, my school does gpa 2 ways.
Unweighted is on a 4 point scale
Weighted is on a 5 point scale.
And I was mistaken when I said mostly Bs… freshman year it was all B+s(3.7/4), sophomore year was split between As and Bs (3.85) then this year was almost all As and one B so it averaged to about a 3.8!!</p>
<p>CollegeGoer789, I would say I am in the top 30-40 in my grade of 550. I know that does not sound very impressive but my school is quite good! It was just ranked 10th in STEM in the entire country! </p>
<p>For finance the US News list is not a bad starting point (with all of the usual caveats about this being just one data point) to plan your first campus visits (hard to choose without sitting in classes and experiencing some of these campuses):</p>
<p><a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-finance”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-finance</a></p>
<p>(Business week puts Notre Dame #1, which isn’t on the US News list, but Notre Dame seems to encourage double majors for its business students which is nice to see)</p>