Sophomore transfer into stern.

hellodocks
Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:55:42 +0000

Where are you now, SUNY Albany?

Your SAT isn’t that awful. Stern and Tisch are the two most competitive schools here, but Tisch relies far more heavily on subjective, qualitative work for acceptance whereas Stern is the opposite, quantitative and concrete in nature. You’re roughly 100-200 points below the average here for Stern, but your raw high school grade isn’t necessarily as important as the ranking relative to others in your class. If you were top 5% (probably unlikely) or top 10%, they generally consider that strong.

Resumes, unfortunately, aren’t that huge a factor because they focus on work experience you’re doing outside of school on your own initiative; a school wants to see a demonstrated track record of academic success, not so much someone taking things on during the summer. Goldman’s a great name (odd that you’re interviewing for something their LevFin has under control), but it isn’t relevant to Stern. Stern is relevant to Goldman in that when you interview for summer analyst or full-time positions it’s a huge factor in your favor, but not vice versa.

Hope this helps.