^ I honestly don’t think, having read OP’s “main” thread, that he or she is a candidate for NYU, even aside from any possible NYS restrictions that were mentioned earlier. (And Gallatin especially is not aimed at students that want to restrict themselves, even before one starts considering how non-stern majors don’t get first registration in stern classes, etc.)
If you aren’t interested in wasting time on anything but what you want to learn then why not skip college all together? You clearly are good at self-learning and skipped high school, no degree is required to do stock trading or a bussiness, take non-degree courses, intern, read books and learn by trial and error method.
If things don’t work out then you can always go to try college.
There are lots of online certificate programs that may be of interest to you & which do not involve any liberal arts type courses.
Being a parent myself, I would never send my 15/16 year old teenager away to college. Reading your previous post, I doubt your parents are 100% on board with that idea either. Academically, you’re there, but you need at least 2 more years of emotional maturity before you’re ready. If you want to attend college, you’re better off going to the local university. These universities are not a place for kids.
Imho it depends upon the kid. In many cases, it’s more of a separation anxiety issue for the parents than maturity issue for the student. Lots of 16-17 year olds go to colleges away from home and do fine while their 19-20 yrs old peers get themselves in trouble. Many get in trouble while attending local colleges as well, unless you are monitoring every move, they are on their own all day. An independent and self-driven 16 yr old isn’t that young for college, it’s not like sending 12 year old child protégés to college.
I am okay with some gen-eds. I was just asking if some universities have less of them, and I got my answer. I’ll get through some gen-eds, not a problem at all.
In another tread you said you were already taking college courses. I’m assuming dual credit type courses taken in HS? If so, some schools will allow dual credit classes to be used to satisfy gen eds. They are less straightforward about that than APs, but my D’s school allowed both of her DE credits to transfer. Something to look into as you research your list.
@momofsenior1 That is correct, I am taking courses at a local university.
Some schools allow you to earn CLEP credit by exam - worth checking out, although top schools won’t consider them. But many public universities do accept CLEP to waive basic gen ed courses. I used them extensively eons ago at UF and my homeschooled son will likely do the same.
OP- you’d be getting a lot more help from very experienced posters here if you toned down your anger. And your posts suggests that you could really benefit from some gen ed/core type classes. Psychology, Rhetoric, Composition and Logic to name a few. You’d be surprised what even a precocious homeschooler hasn’t learned by the age of 16.
And the study of finance has huge relevance to fields you consider irrelevant btw. The most successful traders in the world know more about psychology and human behavior than practitioners in those fields; the best analysts understand history and anthropology and sociology and how culture develops.
Studying finance by itself? Be prepared to be replaced by an algorithm a few years from now. But finance coupled with an actual liberal arts education? Machines can’t do that (yet).
Namaste.
If just an iota of this attitude comes through in your essays, you’re sabotaging yourself. It’s possibly/probably in your interests to aim at colleges that admit by statistics rather than holistically.
You just made @coolguy40 's point.
Colleges are drawing on decades and sometimes over a century of experience in higher education. You are paying to follow a program of study and this requires some level of trust in the process. If you don’t trust the process (order of classes, major requirements, distribution requirements, etc.) you will not be able to take full advantage of what the college has to offer. Even design your own major colleges require sign off from an advisor so that you meet a standard where they are comfortable conferring a degree.
You may want to compare the requirements of the elite finance programs and see what the commonalities are. These commonalities, even the parts that don’t appeal to you, likely contribute to the success of their graduates. You will be paying for their expertise. There is no point in going to a college if you don’t want to take advantage of their expertise.
You keep saying that. Where are you going? You can’t go anywhere until you (a) find a school that accepts correspondence school diplomas, (b) allows 3 years of high school to be crammed into 9 months, and (c) meets your specific requirements (near a city, requires few gen eds, and feeds into Wall St.) Someone here may be able to tell you some likely targets, but if you keep up this attitude you you may never know.
@austinmshauri I’ve already been accepted by one university. In a city, away from home but not really a feeder to Wall Street. I won’t say which school for the sake of anonymity.
Just fyi: almost all schools accept homeschoolers.
The poster I responded to was not at all helpful. Not to mention off topic and rude.
How much are you and your family going to be able to pay? How much are the FAFSa estimators and NPCs for some colleges that interest you, saying you will be expected to pay? Boston has a lot of great schools, and Bentley and Babsonare good suggestions. So is Northeastern. Drexel in PHilly as well if you are looking for name recognition schools. The Kelley school of Business at University of Indiana has a great rep. Then, again, many smaller regional schools have good business programs that have alums who have done very well.
If money is no object, or if the NPCs of schools that guarantee to meet full need are coming up with affordable numbers, you can throw lottery ticket schools in the mix. You have a viable option already, you indicate, so it’s a matter of finding schools you would prefer that are affordable.
Please, can we get back on topic now.
I do not know what is considered “a lot” of gen eds.
I just looked at Ohio state’s requirements. Would OSU’s gen ed be considered “a lot”"?
https://files.fisher.osu.edu/undergraduate/public/2019-10/GE%20as%20of%20AU19.pdf?s965USJZa_xg2DZPs_x9LhPREDXiU_Zl=
It seems like they give you a lot of options, which I like. And they accept CLEP. (Thank you @TrendaLeigh for informing me on that)
Bentley’s curriculum seems more rigid and they do not take CLEP.
Overall I think I may be a better fit for a public school. But maybe someone could chime in about public vs private
@cptofthehouse I don’t really have a budget. What is an NPC and FAFS? Are those things that I need to know? I have never heard of that.
NPC = Net Price Calculator. Most schools have one for students to estimate the cost of attendance.
FAFSA = Free Application for Federal Student Aid
U of Indiana’s Kelley School is a good suggestion if you are willing to look outside the northeast.
“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.”
There’s a big difference though between English classes (structured, formal) in undergrad and business writing and communication (more informal, conversational). Most undergrad b-school programs only require maybe 1 or 2 of the English and writing requirements. Even at Stern which has come up, they only have two writing requirements, Writing the Essay and Text and Ideas. You have to do a lot of writing in the first couple of years in any undergrad b-school major, but it’s not a seminar-based great books, intensive kind of courses.