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U Washington or UT-Austin for business
prayforthebest
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Hi guys, I'm an international high school student studying in NY.
I want to apply to only one of the universities above since I really don't have the energy to apply to both. (Even though they are wonderful schools) I have a plenty of other reach/high target schools.
I know that UT ranks much higher in business than does UW. but I'm really not sure about the internship/job opportunities in business related fields in Austin/Seattle. I heard that most Seattle is mostly tech-reliant. And since I'm an international, I hope my company can get me a green card. So does anyone know in which city/school is it easier to get a job in business (finance or accounting)? And which is easier for me to get the green card through work experience? Or which one is easier for me to get into top-notch business schools (Stanford, Harvard, Wharton, UChicago, etc.) ?
Generally, when I select schools, the weather, atmosphere or community don't matter. But I have one concern for UT Austin: I know that over 90% of the students are instate! and only 2% are international. So will I be treated differently for being an international? Or is it going to be extremely tough for me to get in?
By the way, my SAT score is 2250 (CR 700, M 770, W 780), my TOEFL score is 108, and my GPA is 3.95 unweighted.
Any advice would be appreciated! ;;) :-*
I want to apply to only one of the universities above since I really don't have the energy to apply to both. (Even though they are wonderful schools) I have a plenty of other reach/high target schools.
I know that UT ranks much higher in business than does UW. but I'm really not sure about the internship/job opportunities in business related fields in Austin/Seattle. I heard that most Seattle is mostly tech-reliant. And since I'm an international, I hope my company can get me a green card. So does anyone know in which city/school is it easier to get a job in business (finance or accounting)? And which is easier for me to get the green card through work experience? Or which one is easier for me to get into top-notch business schools (Stanford, Harvard, Wharton, UChicago, etc.) ?
Generally, when I select schools, the weather, atmosphere or community don't matter. But I have one concern for UT Austin: I know that over 90% of the students are instate! and only 2% are international. So will I be treated differently for being an international? Or is it going to be extremely tough for me to get in?
By the way, my SAT score is 2250 (CR 700, M 770, W 780), my TOEFL score is 108, and my GPA is 3.95 unweighted.
Any advice would be appreciated! ;;) :-*
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Replies to: U Washington or UT-Austin for business
The NY and Boston areas have at least a dozen top tier business schools.
Look more locally.
A better business safety for you would be schools like Richmond, Wake Forest, Villanova, Fordham, Lehigh, Bucknell, Elon, Manhattan College, Muhlenberg, Babson, Bentley.
Use the Bloomberg rankings for undergraduate business not US News.
I would pick a super safety plus two semi-safety schools that are such due to your high stats.
So a great super safety is Muhlenberg and semi would be Lehigh, Villanova or Wake.
And to be honest, I don't care that much about the undergrad rankings. I care more about the grad rankings and the overall prestige. I'm ok with majoring in math as an undergrad and getting a MBA later.
Btw, do you know anything about UW at Seattle?
Its a lengthy, expensive, and difficult process. Don't count on getting green card from such pathway. It's not even guaranteed that you will get job after the school.
I don't know about NYU, but UT is VERY HARD to get into as OOS, and the other schools you listed are also top notch schools, so it's ridiculous to say: which one is easier? All those business schools are amazing, so its up to you how to make the best of it,.
Which visa are you on? If you are on F visa, then you won't get any financial aid from UT, assuming you need any. For NYU, you will get need based aid only for a year, and then you are on your own.
in short, being international sucks in term of admission. Top notch schools limit no. of international students for obvious reasons.
University of Washington is a prominent science, engineering and health sciences school at the grad level. Seattle is a pretty terrific city although the cost of living is very high. Similar prestige to the state schools named above.
Both of these would have lower overall prestige than Wake Forest, Richmond, Villanova, Lehigh or Bucknell.
There's no shortage of US citizens graduating w business/finance/accounting degrees, so there's no compelling reason for work visas to be given to foreigners with an undergraduate degree in those majors and no work experience.
As in every city, I'm sure there are some unsavory characters around, and I did see quite a few homeless (sadly) and nouveau hippie types, but no more than what I see in SF, SB, LA or SD.
Either cmsjmt has not visited UW in a while or is a Seattle native doing his or her part to control the population growth up there (the "cold and rainy 10 months of the year" is a dead giveaway).
Best of all, no humidity, no mosquitoes and absolutely gorgrous with the water and mountain ranges, Douglas firs and green.
Traffic is tough and housing is on the high side
Austin is also becoming a mini-tech hub, btw.
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I agree that these are not safety schools. Also, you can work anywhere after going to one of these nationally known universities, although it is a great idea to try to make connections and get internships in a place that you might want to settle down (it works more often than most college students think about). You can get into a top business school from either of the two. So really it comes down to the things you say that don't matter - atmosphere, community, and all of those other issues - because both schools are excellent, and both will allow you to do what you want to do.
One thing to note is that UT has a top-ranked undergraduate business program, and U.S. News puts their undergrad accounting program at #1 (and finance at #6).
I totally disagree that UT and UW have overall lower prestige than Villanova, Lehigh, and Bucknell and I'm not sure that I'd say they have lower prestige than Richmond or Wake Forest. Prestige is such a subjective topic that it kind of depends on who you ask.
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Also, Seattle is nowhere near a crime-ridden city. By crime statistics the Seattle area is one of the safest large cities in the country - the FBI puts it at the #4 safest city. Crime is quite low here. The idea that public transit is non-existent is laughable - public transit is pretty good here compared to most U.S. localities, and either way, we definitely have better public transit than Austin, which is a super spread out Southern city that pretty much requires a car. I have friends and coworkers who live in Seattle proper without a car or who barely touch their car. (I live on the Eastside, but even I have a park and ride really close to me that will take me to different places in the city and the Eastside if I wanted.)
The weather is rainy and grey for much of the year, but 1) it's not cold, particularly not for someone coming from the Northeast. It's in the 50s in early November, and it never really gets down below the 40s/high 30s even in January, and 2) it's not the same kind of rain Northeasterners think of when they think of rain (and I'm from the Northeast). It's more like a semi-constant drizzle. Some days it rains in the morning but not during the day. The accumulated rainfall in Seattle is actually less than that of New York and Boston, IIRC. Seattle actually ranks 44th among major U.S. cities in terms of total annual rainfall.
Austin's weather is nicer most of the year, but in the summer it is very, very hot. Also, the tuition is about the same for an international student. But Austin's cost of living IS much lower - which can make a BIG difference in undergrad when you want to go do stuff.
I don't have a horse in this race nor am I trying to convince you to go to UW - I think you should pick where you want to go - but I wanted to correct those misconceptions! I know as a dutiful Seattleite I'm supposed to be driving people away from the PNW but it's really an awesome place to live.