(Selective/Moderately Selective) US Schools Offering Finance -- Your Thoughts After Campus Visits

GardenintheMorning
Mon, 11 Sep 2023 01:50:10 +0000
Business Majors

I have a Mid-Atlantic female selective private school junior who is whittling down her list of colleges and universities. She has an overly large spreadsheet of 45 US universities and colleges offering Finance as a Degree, Major or Concentration/Specialization.

Her list includes some very selective schools (6-15% admit rate to the undergraduate business school) all the way down to somewhat less selective schools (40-50% admit rate to the undergraduate business school). She is fortunately not fixated on Ivies or T-20 schools.

Her 529 college plan is fully funded, so she does not need to chase merit and she can attend the school of her choice.

We hope she will soon get her list down so we can start visiting schools. We were wondering if older students considering finance/now majoring in finance or their parents would be willing to share their own recent experiences.

Basically, the student is interested in learning things about these schools/programs that wouldn’t pop up in US News and World Reports or Poets & Quants or Common Data Set etc. She has mined the data pretty heavily and is now poking around on the school websites.

(Do not worry about which specific 45 schools are on her list as it does shift a bit week to week and it includes many of the schools one would think about for finance.)

-What really surprised or impressed you about the school or finance program?
-Was there one thing that made the student fall in love with the school or finance program?
-Are any of these Business-Finance programs undergoing radical changes and what were your thoughts?
-Does the school or program have some extra “something special” that most people do not know about?
-For schools with Co-ops/Formal Internship programs, what are your thoughts.
-What about the Business-Finance clubs, organizations, and honors programs?
-Are there special programs or opportunities for Women in Finance/Business at the school?
-Is there something you could share about the Global/International Business opportunities?
-Has the experience lived up to the student’s expectations if the student attended?
-Would the student have gone elsewhere knowing X?

And please feel free to share other things not listed above.

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