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Sorry, I wasn't trying to diminish the value of PSU. I just wanted to make sure that you weren't getting your hopes up. It's true that it stacks up with the best public schools out there, but the problem is most companies prefer private over state schools due to the overall better quality of eduation.

My advice remains with accounting vs. finance. If you use up all of your means in trying to get into finance, I would pursue the CFA. Transfering schools just isn't worth it. Also, I would begin reading about investing on your own ASAP with the books suggest by the posters in this forum (read the sticky).

Graduate schools is a very bad decision IMO. MBA's typically only add worth if theyre from a top 10 business school, and you certaintly won't be able to get into one of those right out of school.