Match Me Please! [3.3 UW, 1360 SAT super score, math/econ]

In terms of what you’re looking for, it seems as though accessibility to internships, job placement, and prestige are important to you.

In looking at which schools you put asterisks by, they were generally all large schools, most with a lot of athletic enthusiasm.

I’m going to recommend that you look at the U. of Cincinnati. There are about 31k undergrads here and a robust school culture around intercollegiate athletics. It has a long history of co-ops within its educational model (co-op info). For students in their business school, students are required to complete at least two full-time equivalent co-ops (two part-time co-ops equate to one full-time co-op) (source), and they are pretty transparent about the co-op wages and undergraduate salaries by major by sharing the low, mean, median, and high (source). The business school has its own career services department with one-on-one coaching available. And the way its business school sets up its first-year experience helps to form strong relationships with a group of less than 20 that students then take classes with and work on projects with UC’s company partners. I think this school would be a likely admit for you, a category that is missing from your current list.

Since prestige is important to you, you may want to look at applying to Baruch College in NYC. It’s not the big ra-ra experience that most of your preferred schools have, and it’s probably more of a commuter experience. But it’s very well-respected in the business world and it does have graduates who end up in very prestigious positions. I’d call this a toss-up for admission, and I believe it’s a free app this week as well.

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