What undergrad colleges, MBA schools, & majors should i go to and take to become an investment banker?

Posted by admin | Higher Education (University +) | Thursday 11 March 2010 9:50 pm


I am 14 years old and I go to a fairly prestigious high school in madison, wi. I currently have a 4.0, I am on the wrestling team ( I expect to be captain in my senior year, and this year I won the most dedicated freshman award), I am on the baseball team, I am going to volunteer as a groundskeeper at my local little league, I have volunteer time for helping out with the youth wrestling club, I am in MENS Club (Men Encouraging Non-violent Strength), and next year I plan to join DECA club (a national marketing club). I have read about becoming an investment banker, and the job interests me a lot. My question is what undergrad school should I go to, and how to get in, what I should major in at that school, if I should do any internships, when and what MBA school I should go to, and what I should concentrate in there. Also, If anyone who knows about stocks wouldn’t mind emailing me to talk about them so I can really get to know about wall street and the stock market. Thank you.
I am not getting a 4.0 in easy classes, I am taking challengening classes…here are my classes for this year and next year

Freshman year:
Biology (required)
Marketing & Sales (elect.)
Spanish 2 (leads to AP Spanish)
Intro. to business and marketing (elect.)
Geometry honors (leads to AP Calc.)
US History 9 (required)
English 10 (most freshman are in english 9)

sophomore year:
chemistry (hardest soph. science class and leads to AP Physics)
Money Management & Finance (elect.)
Western Civ. (required)
Computer Science (Leads to AP Computer science)
Spanish 3 (Leads to AP Spanish)
Alg. 2 Trig Honors (leads to AP Calc.)
Web page design for business & marketing (elec.)
Science fiction (elec.)
Creative Writing Workshop (made for juniors & seniors)

College Professor is horrible & now I am about to fail-What can I do?

Posted by admin | Higher Education (University +) | Friday 19 February 2010 7:01 pm


My dilemma is that I am a college freshman and have a chemistry Professor who is truly horrible at teaching. The entire class average is a 60. We try to ask questions in class and have him explain things, but he just laughs at us without answering. The tests never contain material that we are studying-always obscure stuff that is randomly taken from the back of the book; or outright trick questions designed to make you fail. He gives notes and tells us the test will be from this, but it never is. Now at the point of not being able to drop the class, he finally gives us our grades back. It took a mass emailing campaign to the department head to even get our first 2 test grades back to us to see how we are doing. We received them today and I failed both of them. Now I am sick because I must absolutely ace my next test and my final to even get out with the minimum grade. I have been studying and working with tutors and am studying 8 hours a day to prepare for the next tests and if I fail, I just feel like giving up altogether. I don’t know what to do. It’s not like I haven’t been trying. When I talk with others that have the same exact class, just different teachers, they are studying completely different material than my class. I am going to school on student loans so every class counts. To get into medical school I must make excellent grades or risk not being accepted. Don’t professors have some type of rules that they must follow and be accountable for their lack of proper teaching? I am more than willing to accept my own failings and lack of knowledge, but when does it become the responsibility of the professor to teach me?
I was told that this professor was removed from teaching another chemistry level class because of issues such as this. The department head is aware of his “teaching style” but apparently since he has tenure, they just let him continue…According to the rate my professor website, historically he states in his syllabus that he will drop lowest grade and then doesn’t. He has already said he won’t curve the grades, so I guess I am screwed….
Update Well I took my test today. After many complaints to the dept. head, the prof decided to send us an email at 8PM last night giving us a link to our books website that he was apparently supposed to give to us at the start of the semester that has our study materials and charts on it that he has been giving tests on all along. Go figure! The good thing is that I immediately went to it and was able to find very good resources to study from and print charts as study guides. He even allowed us to use 1 small index card of notes on the test today, as well as added 20 bonus questions that came straight from the website. I feel that I did well on it. Unfortunately, the majority of the class didn’t check that email and were unaware before the test about it. If I did well on this test and on my final I may still be able to squeak by with a min. passing grade & maybe take it over down the road & still be able to progress to the next level next semester. Keep your fingers crossed! Thanks all

What do I say when emailing colleges to get a prospectus from them?

Posted by admin | Higher Education (University +) | Friday 22 January 2010 11:01 pm


I can’t be asked talking to them cause that’ll just take long. Help me out please :)

Would a university professor mind me emailing him/her about an inquiry for a project?

Posted by admin | Higher Education (University +) | Monday 14 December 2009 8:30 pm


I’m currently in sixth form and doing the Extended Project and I would love to get some expert knowledge on the topic of my project. However I’m not sure whether any professors would be too busy to answer a few of my questions. I know this is a silly question, I just want to know if it’s normal for professors to answer inquiries from the public.

Is there any way to get colleges to stop emailing me?

Posted by admin | Higher Education (University +) | Friday 14 August 2009 11:49 pm


I signed up for the SATs on College Board and I guess I didn’t check off the box or whatever that says colleges can contact you so I keep getting like 4+ emails a day and its cluttering my inbox!

Is there anything I can do besides getting a new email that will stop them?

What should one state in the email when emailing it for a undergrad research position?

Posted by admin | Higher Education (University +) | Monday 1 June 2009 4:59 am


I am planning to email few professor, whom I like to assist in their research, but I am confused because I don’t what i should write in the email. I will be attaching mu resume. I would have wrote about my lab experience, but I don’t have any. So I don’t know what to write, any hints

Thank You

How do you remove yourself from the college emailing list?

Posted by admin | Higher Education (University +) | Friday 9 January 2009 8:04 pm


I checked the little box on the PSAT’s but now I’ve picked a college and I’m sick of getting a bunch of emails and letters from colleges every day. Is there any way to remove my name from that list? Anything on collegeboard.com? Thanks!

Is there a specific format when emailing a college professor?

Posted by admin | Higher Education (University +) | Friday 26 December 2008 9:25 pm


I want to email my college professor, but I first wanted to make sure if there is a format needed while emailing a professor or if you just send an email like you would to a friend or family, etc. Thank you