<p>So I’m currently at Centre College in Kentucky. It’s a (VERY) small liberal art school. usnews last year had it ranked at #42 national liberal art colleges, so I’m not transferring from a CC.</p>
<p>High school stats:</p>
<p>3.86 UW GPA
29 ACT
Rank: 5/109 </p>
<p>Was an official in National Honor Society, volunteered with the humane society, along with other school clubs.</p>
<p>I worked at a chemical plant (Dow Corning) from Aug. 11-Aug. 12 in the quality assurance lab as a lab technician.</p>
<p>The AP classes I took:</p>
<p>Junior:</p>
<ul>
<li>AP English Comp (3)
<ul>
<li>AP US History (3)</li>
<li>AP Chem (1)</li>
<li>AP Biology (1)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>Senior:</p>
<ul>
<li>AP Stats (3)
<ul>
<li>AP Calc (3)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>Obviously science isn’t my forte… Will those scores go against me? I went to a pretty bad public high school that was just getting introduced to AP classes. AP Bio/AP Chem were literally in their first year there that I took them. And I just suck at science.</p>
<p>I don’t have college stats yet, but I’m taking </p>
<ul>
<li>Chemistry
<ul>
<li>Calculus</li>
<li>Economics</li>
<li>Humanities</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>And if I had to guess a GPA… I would say around 3.5-3.8 for my first semester. I came from a high school were I didn’t have to try at all (like literally no studying and doing HW before class started) to be at the top. And college definitely changed that, so I’m determined to get a better GPA next semester.</p>
<p>My extracurriculars at the moment are writing for our school’s newspaper and the economics club.</p>
<p>I’m currently looking for a volunteering opportunity. Suggestions?</p>
<p>But the major I was pursuing here was “Financial Economics”. My goal is to work in the northeast in investment banking. I have the attitude if I don’t like it, I’ll have good exit opps. At this point, I would go for middle-market and not just BB. I just want to be in the city doing finance (I wouldn’t want to be a lawyer, doctor, engineer, etc)</p>
<p>I was planning on networking the hell out of alums at my school to try and get into the industry, but I haven’t really enjoyed my time here a ton. The atmosphere is really conservative, and I’m kind of (really) tired of the small town atmosphere.</p>
<p>So what are some good schools I could look into transferring?</p>
<p>I was thinking NYU, Boston College, Boston University… Any suggestions? Any semi-target schools that I would have a chance of maybe getting in? </p>
<p>Also, I’ve read Vandy has a very strangely high transfer rate (like over 50%). Isn’t vandy a semi-target for IB? Still wanting to get away from the south, heard Vandy is pretty conservative/rich-kid/preppy… But my school has a pretty good relation with them.</p>