Currently I am a freshman in the IBE program at Lehigh university and majoring in Finance. I have absolutely no interest in engineering so I’m going to be dropping IBE and just doing finance, but I was wondering if I would be better off at a different school for finance like NYU CAS for econ or Fordham/Baruch for finance. The reason I’m not considering stern is because they only have fall transfer, so I would have to wait until fall of my junior year to transfer which is too late in my opinion.
A big reason I want to transfer is because of location, I just really want to be in the city for social reasons (things to do, close to my house) and for networking reasons. I just genuinely don’t enjoy Lehigh.
So I will be applying for sophomore year spring transfer to three schools mentioned above. I currently have a 3.4 GPA and will be grinding easyish classes next semester and I think I can reasonably bring it up to a 3.6-3.7. I had a 3.7 in high school so I think I have a pretty good shot for Fordham and Baruch and a decent shot for NYU cas econ.
So I guess the main question I’m asking is you think I’m better off staying at Lehigh finance, NYU cas econ, or Fordham/Baruch finance. (I know i’m not interested in IB if that changes anything). My end goal would be to get in the finance field like analysis or corporate finance.
Thank you!