Finance Major for Average Stat Kid - Need list of schools
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Playing off the where do average kids go to school. DS is a junior and is interested in finance/business.
Trying to help prepare a list of schools to consider. Current GPA - 3.29 (3.68 WGPA) - a difficult freshman year put him in a deep hole. Hoping to raise it a bit this year but who know given the virtual learning. By end of this year he will have 4 AP classes. Has not taken SAT yet, but PSAT was 1020. He is starting to prep now and is scheduled to take the December SAT so we will see but unlikely to be anything outstanding. Looking for a mix of longshots, reaches, and safeties. |
Anonymous
| If you are full pay, have him major in Econ at a liberal arts school. They desperately need full pay kids and he might be able to land in a liberal arts school ranked in the top 100. |
Anonymous
| Accounting or Finance at Fairfield in CT. They have a very strong business school with almost all placement in the tax/audit/consulting firms in NY and Boston if that’s what he’d like. |
Anonymous
| He can easily transfer to DC once he has a job. |
Anonymous
| Check out state universities, but not at their flagship campus (e.g., Penn State but not in State College, U Wisconsin but not in Madison). |
Anonymous
| what is attractive about finance to him? Make sure he realizes that he's going to need to totally turn around his grades if Wall Street is that goal (and even then, places like GS arent heavily recruiting outside of top schools). If he just like finance because of the salary at the end of the road, he may want to think more broadly about his career aspirations |
Anonymous
| I’m a finance manager not Wall Street but corporate and I make in the mid 100k range. If he’s looking for corporate jobs, he’ll need a great GPA but jobs are available. The hardest thing will be getting his first job. |
Anonymous
| Look at the Business Schools at some of the Catholic colleges, Villanova, Fordham, St. Joes in Philadelphia. They have strong business schools with active alumni networks of grads who have done well in finance over the past thirty years. There are probably other schools as well. Villanova's business school is pretty hard to get into but look at some others. |
Anonymous
| Temple? A friend’s son didn’t do that well in high school but has flourished in the business school at Temple. |
Anonymous
| Maybe start at community college, and then transfer. |
Anonymous
I’m the one who suggested Temple. There are lots of places to work other than GS or Wall Street. |
Anonymous
| I did Econ at a top liberal arts school & worked on wall st. If that’s his goal, we recruited from the top schools (didn’t care what major was, cared about drive & top top gpa. Figured we would train them anyways - wanted someone who had proven record of succeeding) and also recruited from second tier schools but from those we did care about the major - wanted finance or accounting or business and had to have near perfect gpa but also great interview skills, a cool story, etc. |
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Is cost and issue?
Towson UMBC VaTech St Joes Dayton UofSouthCarolina Delaware Penn State Florida State |
Anonymous
That’s fine - but when I hear a kid that young day finance, I think dreams of being the next Gordon Geko, not of being an accountant and Ernst Young |
Anonymous
Why would you think this is a good idea? Unless OP is looking to save money. |