Where should I apply (Target and Reaches)

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I go to a very highly rated private school in Kansas that offers 17 AP classes. I prefer a small liberal arts school in the northeast that would hopefully set me up for an investment banking internship. I will have strong recommendations and very strong essays.

I have almost 1000 hours of work experience as the payroll manager at a home health care agency with roughly 1000 employees. I have played table tennis for 15 hours a week since freshman year. Co-captain of our school’s history bowl team that won a state championship. 4 year debater and 3 year forensicator qualifying for nationals and state in both. Various other volunteer work and clubs.

Basic Stats:

UW GPA: 3.87
W GPA: School does not weight GPA but I estimate 4.5

ACT Composite: 33
ACT Math: 29
ACT Science: 35
ACT Reading: 34
ACT English: 35

60 people in my graduating class and school does not rank
Many graduates are accepted to ivy leagues
I can write very compelling essays

8 AP classes by the time I graduate
AP Scholar
all courses that are not AP courses are considered honors courses

Thanks :)!

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Your criteria indicates NESCACs, particularly those noted for their outstanding economics programs (Williams, Middlebury, Wesleyan, Hamilton . . .):

https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.uslacecon.html

Or those that tend to produce future MBAs (Amherst, Hamilton, Middlebury, Bates . . .):

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For your interest in IB, Williams and Amherst are noted for that and would be reaches but possible. Colgate would be more of a match.

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Students from several colleges can participate in a Harvard Business School program that may be of interest to you in terms of your search:

http://blogs.wgbh.org/on-campus/2015/5/5/harvard-business-school-expands-online-initiative-liberal-arts-colleges/

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Amherst and Middlebury. Consider Dartmouth and Boston College.
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These eastern schools are renown for their economics departments because of their status as top Ph.D feeder schools.

Wesleyan, Amherst, Swartmore, Williams
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Thank you all! The top schools on my list were Williams and Amherst and I really feel that I could get in but I was looking for an outside source that would not have a personal bias. This really helped alot!

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CrewDad,

Dartmouth seems like an impossible school to gain acceptance to. Especially with my average extra-curricular activities. Just wondering why you recommended the school?

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Williams, Dartmouth and Amherst tend to enroll students with similar academic profiles:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10/#50-colgate-university-average-sat-1369-1

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In terms of producing future Investment bankers, Middlebury is one of the top schools in the entire country. In fact it tops all but about a dozen or so National Research Universities, including those with MBA programs. The only small Liberal Arts Colleges that do better are Amherst and Wellesley (limited to women).