Could I have gotten into McDonough???

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<p>I got into Stern ED, wondering my chances for G-Town RD.</p>

<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Pakistani
Residing in New York
High School Type: Public
Prospective Major: Finance/ International Business</p>

<p>GPA UW: 90 , W: School does not weight averages
SAT: Math: 750 CR: 670 Writing: 710 Total one sitting: 2130
SAT II’s; Spanish without listening: 750 US History: 740 Math IIC: 750
Rank: Okay here is the huge problem, my school does NOT weight my average to determine my school rank which stinks because kids who take an easy courseload have high A GPA’s and it is just unfair to people like me who challenge themselves and thus have a lower UW GPA. My counselor mentions this in my transcript and recommendation letter. My rank is then top 25% UW. My weighted rank is more like top 10%</p>

<p>Courseload:</p>

<p>Freshmen Year: All Honors ( Except Biology)
Sophmore Year: All Honors, AP European History
Junior Year: AP English: 4 AP US History: 4 AP Psychology: 5 Rest were honors
Senior Year: 5 AP’s and 1 SUPA class</p>

<p>Sports: </p>

<p>Varsity Wrestler; Awards, distinctions, service hours, such as helping young kids wrestle. Journeymen clinic member; 2 years. Wrestling for total of 5 years.</p>

<p>Club Soccer: 8 years, with distinctions</p>

<p>Track and Field: 4 years</p>

<p>Jui-Jitsu: 8 years, went to various tournaments, and I help teach younger children and grown adults proper technique at a local clinic. </p>

<p>EC’s: </p>

<p>1) Medical Club President (9, 10, 11, 12)
2) Free the Children; member then President (10, 11, 12)
3) Student Government President; Member for freshmen year, VP Sophmore and Junior Year, President Grade 12.
4) Competed in Math league tournaments
5) National Honor Society Tutor for Math ( 10, 11, 12)
6) Service hours in a children’s intensive care unit: 100 hours
7) Mosque Youth Group: 100 Hours
8) I undertook an internship at Merill Lynch under my first cousin who is a floor manager: 240 hours; $10/ hour
9) I went to a “Summer@Brown” Program for two summers, 1 week, then 3 week program.</p>

<p>Essays: Very Good </p>

<p>Recommendations: AP English Teacher: Very good, Counselor: Excellent and most importantly I got a recommendation from a floor manager at Merrill Lynch which was great.</p>

<p>Hooks: </p>

<p>1) I speak three languages besides English: Arabic, Spanish, Urdu/Hindi
2) I am doing an internship overseas in Dubai this summer
3) Leadership/ interviewing skills</p>

<p>What are my chances for Gtown’s undergraduate business school McDonough?? Thank you.</p>

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<p>yeah most likely. Enjoy NYU though and good luck finding a job/internship in NY with streets flooded with Ivy-league, experienced financiers and economists :P</p>

<p>Too bad Merr would probably not make any commitments to you given that they are screwed right now so even that lead is a dead one…</p>

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<p>If you got into Stern then you’d probably get into McDonough.</p>

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<p>stern is not that hard to get into and considering he would be a local for them…~90% chance? I honestly don’t understand why you chose to commit 100% of your assets to a 30-year treasury bond. I applied EA to GTown because I knew I had a darn good chance of making it in. I got my high-yield corporate bond for a company that has several multiples of required safety margins for interest payments and am free to invest in any other (perhaps more risky and higher yielding) ventures.</p>

<p>I’m sorry if I sound upset. I just really hate to see inefficient allocation of resources…</p>

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<p>Bump! Any more?</p>

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<p>Well, necrophiliac, I am not even interested in Wall Street, I am interested in Doha and Lusail, Dubai and Kuwait City. Not to say I would not get a top job in Wall Street, but the fact that the US is done for the next decade isn’t looking good for future investors. Let me give you real objective facts of why I would be a prime asset of a company to work in the middle east, and NOT in the US.:</p>

<p>1) I am Muslim, this eliminates descrimination in the middle east.
2) I speak Arabic, and understand all customs since my mother is Arab.
3) I will have a good Stern degree in a time where jobs in the middle east will be available and promising. </p>

<p>( I am still wondering whether I can double major in Finance and International Business, I have to call on that.) Anyways, Merrill was not in the red zone when i did an internship, and even if it was and I didn’t care to notice, it doesn’t matter since I invest only international shares on my custodial account, US bread and butter companies like General motors and Freddie Mac are complete failures, and one must look internationally now, in a more global aspect. Saudi Aramco, Qatar Petroleum, and also when exceptional companies like Callison have their IPO, so you can get your investments in.</p>

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<p>Stern is a great school. I have several good friends there. Great professors and top finance program. Enjoy! And recruiting is pretty good as well (and there are opportunity to do programs like Evening/Night Analysts at BBs from what I hear that would not be available else where in the country). Congrats!</p>

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<p>Well sorry to bburst your bubble NiraliMag…Doha, Dubai and co are going to be seriously affected by the economic crisis. Dubai is already having trouble; heavily reliant on real estate as its mainstay…would have some adjustments to make:<a href=“http://www.dubaichronicle.com/finance/financial-crisis-gets-real-2124[/url]”>http://www.dubaichronicle.com/finance/financial-crisis-gets-real-2124&lt;/a&gt; one of the many bad news coming from the gulf states</p>

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<p>Still not as bad as the US, good article though.</p>

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<p>if you wanted international exposure, why on earth did you elect stern? By the way, according to EPA research, oil is a normal economic good meaning that it performs poorly in a recession environment. You aren’t recession-proof by going abroad. And also, investing in a depression environment is a lot easier than in a speculative frenzy. All the people who had no business in the market got out and only those who understand what is going on are still in it. Valuations are actually approaching calculated values (CMG not at 100+ P/E) and you can hedge away risk with derivative contracts.</p>