<p>Extracurriculars:
-French NHS Member
-Leo’s Club (Treasurer) (will volunteer 1000+ hours before graduation)
-Local Public Library Board of Trustees Member
-Kumon (working there for past 3 years, math program completer)
-Lawrence and Memorial Hospital Volunteer
-Mu Alpha Theta Chapter Founder
-Various math clubs (and competitions)
-High School Library Student Advisory Board Member
-Science Olympiad Member</p>
<p>Honors/AP Courses:
-Sophomore year: Honors Bio, Honors Chem, Honors Trig, Honors English, Honors French, Honors Pre-Calc.
-Junior year: AP Calculus AB, AP Chem, AP Bio, Honors French, AP Psych, AP US History, and AP Stats</p>
<p>My desired major: Fianance</p>
<p>Which colleges should I have as my aim and which colleges are more suitable for my reach?
Financially, I can go just about anywhere, as long as I get in.</p>
<p>UAlabama has a nice finance major and you’d qualify for a full-tuition scholarship, along with honors college and honors dorm.
Your flagship should be a pretty good bet.</p>
<p>@jkeil911
Here’s a little more info:
I was looking to get a Master’s Degree for Finance or something related. I was thinking something like an MBA.
My family wants me to stay close to New England, so I think the farthest east and south will go is Ohio and Virginia.
I would also prefer colleges that offer some aid, as it will help out my family for my brothers.
Finally, I am looking forward to a somewhat selective college, so the college must accept 25% or lower of their applicants.</p>
<p>Somewhat selective is not 25%. Somewhat selective is more like 75% acceptance rate. With your stats, you’re pretty unlikely to be accepted to too many schools with acceptance rates below 25%. I would try Brandeis, URochester, your state flagship, maybe Boston University. They’re all very good colleges with lower acceptance rates since that seems to be very important to you (though acceptance rates really have nothing to do with the caliber of a school, to be quite honest. It’s a gimmick.)</p>
<p>“somewhat selective” means they admit about 75% applicants, as Minohi said. Very selective college admit about 50% applicants. Highly selective college admit about 30-40%. Only the most selective (that you aren’t within reach for) admit 25% and less.
You’d qualify for auto-admit at Indiana Kelley and their Finance major is excellent (and has a Wall Street track). Boston College, Boston University, NYU Economics, American University may be possibilities. Your SAT and ACT scores are excellent and should get your merit at many universities.
What’s your actual budget?</p>
<p>Thanks everyone.
I ran some college search quizzes and one college that really caught my eye is New York University (NYU). Is this a college I have a good chance at or is it too far of a reach? @MYOS1634 @minohi</p>
<p>I think NYU is a match, but the problem is that they’re very expensive and lousy with financial aid. So don’t count on it being affordable even if you get in and your parents have a good budget. For NYU, you should expect to pay 40-45,000 at a minimum…</p>
<p>^ This. Also, NYU doesn’t have much of a campus, it’s more just integrated into the city. I was once interested in NYU as well but it was the mixture of all of these things that drew me away from it. Instead of taking those college quizzes, I think you should come up with a list of non-negotiable criteria for your college, such as a particular size, location, price after financial aid, etc and search for colleges that meet your needs.</p>
<p>Holy Cross, Colgate both have great alumni networks for finance job placement. Holy Cross has the better location-beautiful campus 1 hour from Boston.</p>