I am homeschooled and will be attending college at 16.
Stats:
ACT 35
Gpa UW 4.0
Math II 760
EC:
Played trumpet for 6 years.
Play golf for fun
Nothing else relevant
Now, on to what i’m looking for.
In or just outside a major city. Not open to any rural schools.
Northeast or Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin or Chicago.
Strong business/finance program
8K plus undergrads.
Would like to stay away from liberal arts. I would prefer a more practical business and financial education. I want to stay on a mosty pre-professional path.
Your stats are good, but according to your other thread you left traditional school at 14 and completed 3 years of high school in one year in an online program. Make sure you apply broadly and focus attention on what the colleges want in an applicant as well as what you want in a school. Create a list that includes matches and safeties first, then add your reaches.
@me29034 Can you study finance at the Lincoln Center campus? I wouldn’t want to go to the rose hill campus. I like to spend a lot of time off-campus and rose hill wouldn’t be the place for that.
Research DePaul, U Dayton, Baruch, Fairfield. Some may have too many gen Ed’s to your liking, but all have good business career prep and post-grad placement.
NYS may be a challenge for OP. The NYS Board of Regents doesn’t allow homeschooled students to complete more than one grade in a single academic year. And they don’t accept online diplomas from their homeschoolers. So OP needs to check each school to make sure their application will be considered.
All colleges are going to have requirements outside your major but some are more flexible than others. Most schools have english requirements of some kind for all students. Strong written and oral communication skills are necessary for any major/job.
One of the advantages of staying in HS longer is that you could have taken more AP courses, which at some schools could be used to fulfill general education requirements.
You will have a difficult time fulfilling these requirements. Even business focused undergrad schools will have gen ed requirements…Look at Bentley (https://catalog.bentley.edu/undergraduate/degree-requirements/) and Babson (50% liberal arts courses but broadly defined)…research the academic/course catalogs for details…do these schools meet your criteria?
After that, I am not sure I know of any schools offering a finance major that don’t have gen ed requirements. Many of the schools with open/substantially open curriculums do not have a finance major…you would be looking at an econ major at those schools (Amherst, etc), some may have financial economics, like U Rochester. Also look into the required course detail at Northeastern http://catalog.northeastern.edu/undergraduate/university-academics/nupath/requirements/.
Completing classes in liberal arts will best prepare you for the business world…as many have stated above, business people need good communication skills. Why do you think IB firms recruit at the schools they do…schools that generally have gen ed requirements?
It may be hard to find colleges with no general education requirements (e.g. Evergreen State, Amherst, Brown) that also offer business or finance majors.
Although it is outside the Northeast, and very slightly smaller than you want, SMU’s Cox school of business is very highly regarded. SMU does have a bunch of requirements to fulfill, but it is also very preprofessional, if you want it to be.
I spent 23 years in finance as a career (yes, my only career, so that means I retired very early). Not wanting to do English at the very least is a handicap; no-one (or no-one successful anyway) sits analyzing data without ever having to communicate what they’re doing. The more successful you want to be, the more important that is, as is understanding a wider world view, be it science or politics, etc. Finance isn’t an island, and “business” even less so.
@SJ2727 I don’t mind some gen ed classes. But I don’t want to go into detail about literature and poetry or Biology. I have already done some basic courses dual enrollment.
NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study is a school within New York University, Gallatin students design their own programs of study under the guidance of advisers. NYU is strong for business and finance and you are not too far from Wall street.