/biz/ - Business & Finance

Hey /biz/nessmen. I'm a junior in high school (before you ask I repeated freshmen year because I moved from public to private school, so I turned 18 last week). I was wondering what you guys think about my college plan.

Right now I've got a 3.4 GPA. I go to a private high school that mentions in our college apps that our curriculum is higher (which it is, considering we usually go at a faster pace and cover more content in our subjects). We have a good reputation with colleges, who usually know our school well because our headmaster does a lot of meetings and whatnot.

My parents are both professors at pic related. This year, they recommended I get in contact with a few of our family friends in the Econ/Business department and do some research over the summer, given my interests in the subject. I met with one at the business school whose daughter graduated from my school last year and he said he'd be glad to recommend me to any professors. Apparently undergrads are often unreliable, but he said that he can recommend for the level of advanced studies we do at my school and that should be enough to get me in with a professor.

So /biz/, would it be smart for me just to go here? It's not a top school along the lines of Harvard or Princeton, but one of my friends went to Worcester Polytech and has already lined up internships at Merrill Lynch and Bridgewater, so does the school really count? I've heard BU has a good internship program at their Business School (Questrom) and for majors I'm considering doing Math/Econ as well as a minor in Finance. As it stands right now, my Econ coursework that I've done (my high school offers college courses) allows me to void 3 of the 8 courses required for a finance minor and by the end of senior year, I'll have done 7 Econ courses (intro micro, intro macro, econometrics 1, econometrics 2, intermediate micro, intermediate macro, and another econ course i have to choose).