Ok. Good.
I like the artist thing. It’s unique.
Pure guess - none of us are AOs
Yea to Fordham, Baruch, Rutgers, Stevens, Montclair, NJIT.
What’s your budget ? I ask bcuz you are applying to schools that will cost $400k yet you note - hoping for a scholarship at Stevens.
If you get that, would you choose it over a $90k plus school? If budget matters, you can go to solid b schools for as little as $25k given your stats - and for engineering a bit less. You’d have to leave your comfort zone geographically.
You might add IU and Babson to this list for finance. UMD if serious about engineering but has a great finance program too although you are late to apply.
Frankly you can look up most publics in the Easy, whether a Va Tech or UF or Bing on LinkedIn plus investment banking and find people in IB analyst roles. . It may not be easy but it’s not impossible.
Best of luck.