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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP,

I set up the same parameters for my kid’s search. They still applied - and were accepted to Top 50 schools, but they were non-starters for us too because of the costs.

Check out the schools listed by US News as regional schools. Some are not nationally ranked because they are too small, while others are usually below 150 to the mid 200s. Most give generous merit scholarships and many have Honors Colleges or Honors Programs.  My DC attends St. Joseph’s University aka St. Joe’s in Philadelphia. A Jesuit school with 4,000 undergrads, the school provides advising from freshman year on, and colleges of pharmacy, arts & science, business, nursing, education, and liberal arts. They also have many combined 3-2 health certification programs such as PA.

DC graduated from a local DMV private with a 3.5 and a 1440 SAT. They were not accepted into St. Joe’s small honors program because of their low-ish HS GPA. They’ve excelled at SJU, being a big fish in a little pond. Lots of great internships, shadowships, study abroad, and honors programs, and hands-on attention from professors. Majoring in finance, this summer they’ll be interning at [b]a best in class global firm with an intern acceptance rate of only 2%. [/b]

We read somewhere, early in our search, a research study showing that the best indicator of success is where a kid applies. If they see themselves at Georgetown or Penn, for example, they’ll achieve at that level.

Good luck to your DC.

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I can guarantee you that is doctored in some some way. [/quote]

They went to a DC private. It may be a matter of dad asking a golfing buddy for a favor. When people talk about the name of the school not mattering for UMC and UC kids it's because those kids have networks to rely on instead of the college [/quote]

This is the pp you are referring to. Dad doesn’t golf - he’s a fed! Kid just networked a ton and treated the internship search as another class. I think he spent the most time, actually, searching for internships, then a close tie between partying / chillaxing and classes.

And to 11:01 - you don’t know what you are talking about. Some of the very top finance internships have acceptance rates below 1%. Look it up. Google and investopedia are your friends.[/quote]

Not the ones that someone from SJU is getting into without family connections; sorry. There are certainly none in the Philadelphia area (which I am intimately familiar with) that fit that description except SIG. Nor is it the case for back office “finance” internships in Charlotte, SLC, Wilmington DE or Philly.

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Ok, I guess I must be a delusional dreamer then. Go on, keep telling me what my kid did not do. It’s not back office, btw. I’ll admit the acceptance number published was firm-wide (global firm). Is that what you consider doctored?

I can tell you I was in tears when he turned down my alma mater because of the $300k price tag, and I really did not think he would land the kind of highly competitive internship he sought. It’s important to know that the student is the ultimate driver of success, and I want to encourage other parents to explore different options rather than simply signing up for Parent Plus loans as the schools encourage “donut hole” families to do. [/quote]

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