My freshman year I didn’t have a strong desire to get amazing grades. Partly because of covid and other reasons. Sophomore year and beyond I have been dedicated. It’s college applications now. I have greats extracurriculars but am scared I will end up at a decent state school ex. Ohio State or similar. If this happens is it possible to recruit or should I pivot and focus on something else?
All thoughts greatly appreciated.
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Don’t give up on IB even if you go to a state school. Work hard and get a good GPA, join the investment/finance club (if your college doesn’t have one, start one!), and try to network with ideally recent alumni working in your banks of interest. You’ll make it.
Get off this fucking website and enjoy being 17 for Christ's sake.
You say you have great EC’s so if that’s true you’ll probably be competitive for targets. Great EC’s can overcome suboptimal GPAs.
Thanks for the advice. Guess i’m just stressed cause this determines a big part of my future
Totally get it, man. I was stressed too because my college decisions didn't go the way I was hoping they would. Transferring schools isn't that difficult of a process if you educate yourself ahead of time and know where you want to apply.
If you're seriously concerned, make sure to apply to IU-Kelley, tOSU, Penn State, and SMU. Those schools have reasonably high acceptance rates for their solid reputations. Worst comes to worst, you can have a grand old time at those schools.
Would be happy to mentor you through my experience and help in any way I can, however I think you should remove this negativity. Who cares if you end up at a state school, plenty of successful people went there. You are 17, if from now on you put your head down and work hard, you will be in a strong situation.
Thank you, I know state schools aren’t a bad place. I just have the thought process it would be very difficult or not happen from there.
A tonnnn of people from 'decent state schools' work on Wall Street. You'll be just fine as long as you're willing to work hard in college. Looking back I really regret spending half my senior year being depressed about college apps because it truly isn't a big deal in the long run.
Transferring isn’t a bad option. Would heavily consider doing so after absolutely crushing freshman year. Plenty of transfer friendly semi targets and even some low targets.
What is the state you currently reside in? Some good schools with strong placement like IU, UNC UF, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UTA have pretty strong placement. In state (excluding UCB UCLA and maybe UTA) should be easier to get into.
Ohio… So most likely choice would be osu if i were to go in state
Going through it as well
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