Help Me Narrow Down My List

[timber pilot]

if ur looking to cut, cut heavy safeties

i suggest Emory as well

[timber pilot]

for example uroch or sunys

[worthy turtle]

Cut njit too

[timber pilot]

also maybe RIT unless ur a huge fan of their co op program and potential shot at the SUNY upstate med bsmd and the 5 year masters program

[hexed moon]

i audibly gasped at the length of this list

cut safeties down heavily. find 3-4 that you actually like (can see yourself at) and go with those

that'll immediately shave 10 off your list

bringing you down to 23 schools, 20 of which are still reaches unless you really want to shotgun

[worthy turtle]

1 safety and however target and reach u can afford is my advice

[hexed moon]

your reaches are all t20 schools which more or less fit your criteria (easily summed up by saying "good academics + career opportunities" .... pretty much a universal constant for any university at that caliber)

[hexed moon]

1 safety is stupid. do at least 2-3

[worthy turtle]

why? no need to apply to more when you have one that you're comfortable going with

[timber pilot]

3

imo

[hexed moon]

if worst case comes to fruition and you're left to choose between your safeties, having more than 1 option under your belt at least provides some semblance of a choice

[timber pilot]

they likely have reasons for why they listed so many

its easier to narrow it down to 3

than 1

[hexed moon]

also. this is a2c. people here will consider schools with 25% acceptance rates as "safeties." apply to that as your fallback school and you don't get in, then what?

my rec is 3-4. not less than 2

[worthy turtle]

true true lmao

[hexed moon]

anyways. @meager stump if you want to narrow down your reaches (or you can shotgun, be my guest), think critically about what aspects of a school you would prefer aside from academics. weather? social life? ease of transport? activities? location? if not helping to cut down your list, it will at least give yourself more clarity on what exactly you want out of college

[timber pilot]

^

[vocal ledge]

first, these two are bad at finance so if you are studying finance then i would rule them out:
georgia tech
rennsaeler polytechnic

in general most polytech places will be

Also rule out:
Virginia tech (too big), rochester institute of technology (doesn't got great programs for your majors), rutgers (way too big), northeastern, columbia (biomed eng program isn't great), nyu (too big, programs are ok)

also a lot of the ivys are similar so maybe consider applying to the ones you really like 🤷‍♂️

[timber pilot]

columbia is just bad in general

/hj

[hexed moon]

i listed them out for you in that same message

weather, social life, ease of transport, activities, location, etc.

• social structure, size, greek life, campus culture, traditions, specifically niche departments/clubs/programs

[vocal ledge]

there's also stuff like housing, how nice campus is

[hexed moon]

yep

rent, nearby real estate since 80% you'll live off campus at some point

[timber pilot]

Yeah its a rllly good program but emorys amazing for premed and gt is great for bme

[little tapir]

financial aid issues and stuff can be very common

[little tapir]

tbf almost all of those schools are bad for finance (the ones on his list rn)

[little tapir]

and i wpuld keep northeastern columbia and nyu

[vocal ledge]

I mean NYU is bigger than 18k students so unless its programs for bme/mech/finance are super amazing (which they aren’t really) I’d rule it out. And again for a bme major Columbia isn’t great.

[little tapir]

nyu has an amazing finance program

literally one of the biggest finance feeders out there 😭

[vocal ledge]

Yuh but its a double major - just cause finance is good doesn’t mean you should go

If bme/mech aren’t as good

And again school is too big for their preferences

[little tapir]

nyu is a mid sized school??

[vocal ledge]

They wanted 4k to 18k

Students

[little tapir]

i think thats more of a random figure

lol

[vocal ledge]

NYU has like 28k undergrads

That’s literally 10,000 more which is not a small margin lol

A lot of the ivys will have decent finance and MIT

[little tapir]

what field of finance r u interested in?

[vocal ledge]

But you probably need target/safeties as well

[little tapir]

if your interested in finance as a career look up “investment banking target schools” and that should give you a rough idea

[vocal ledge]

For just finance and not bme or mech - UW Madison, UIUC, UM College Park, CWRU (target), UT Austin (target)