Makes zero sense - a large public is a large public. And the top 30 as you see are not the top 30 b schools.
Bentley has merit aid. Babson is the #1 school for entrepreneurship in the country - very prestigious. Both are on the IB target school lists.
Transferring to a ‘better’ school. Schools aren’t ‘better’ because a magazine says they are.
A ranking is to sell magazines. And for marketing. Example - my kid turned down Purdue engineering for a no name and yet works with and earns the same as Purdue and Michigan grads but also W Michigan, Akron and more. The real world isn’t quite as black and white as you make it. Btw I was like you - he told me otherwise I’m convinced he’s not wrong I see at work where a Vandy works for W Georgia I have an MBA I had a boss with no degree. It’s like this in life. We had a Harvard Law working for Fairleigh Dickinson til the FDU person retired.
Nonetheless if you don’t get into a ‘better school,”, add Indiana, Texas and SMU plus Arizona State and IBIS. Fordham too. Google any flagship and Investment banking + LinkedIn - whether Penn State, Ohio State, Florida, Colorado, Va Tech, UGA, Wisconsin, UMN,W&M and you’ll find kids in IB. And you’ll find most at UM or UVA or any school don’t get close to it. And you don’t look to transfer - that’s the best way to do poorly your first year go, get involved, and pursue your goal with the same fortitude you’ll need to do it from UM.
Have a budget - that your family can afford if they can afford $90k with no issue, great but if it’s a strain you are then taking on a boatload of risk for an unlikely outcome.
Schools aren’t ‘better’ - sorry there are Michigan and UVA types at every flagship with your biggest National Merit schools down south - Bama, Florida and by percentage - Tulsa. Will UM and UVA place better in IB - yes, most likely. But that doesn’t mean good. And outside of that since you don’t know what you want five years from now (a 24 hr review hasn’t given you the answer), students from all schools will be working side by side with one another.
Open your eyes a bit more. Reading a rank isn’t the way to pick a school. But here are your target schools in pic and another with a link. Go to the per capita on the bottom you’ll see both Babson and Bentley (who has merit). When you look at rank, they are looking at certain banks - the major ones. There are many others and some hire regionally - example a Rice, SMU, UT might pull Texas firms, etc. Good luck
I removed the link. It’s not work but google college transitions + IB feeders.
Here are some images.
