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Again thanks for all your help.
I know MS&E graduates that have been hired by banks (Citi), consulting firms (McKinsey, etc.), and local corporations without needing to get an MBA. however, many will still pursue a masters in MS&E (coterm), engineering masters, or MBA
MSE students have gone to a lot of places. Also, co-terming is a great option which i'll definitely be doing
Here are some useful links:
Choosing to Coterm | Undergraduate Academic Life
Welcome to the Coterm Page | Undergraduate Academic Life
For financial aid purposes, you are considered an undergrad while taking courses towards your co-term in the 3rd or 4th year. My nephew did his work for a bachelor's and co-term master's degree in 4 years, so any financial aid he was receiving would have worked towards the co-term.
If, as most students do, you complete the co-term requirements during a 5th year, you would not get any FA for that year.
Most MBA programs do want their students to have work experience before attending. This is not new.
The long forced march of college applications, fretful waiting and difficult choices has come to a happy conclusion for my son and me. It was my first time through the wringer, and it was a bit unnerving to find myself so near the epicenter of the helicopter parent-tiger mother-Ivy or bust debate: that is, to see private experience through the wrong end of the telescope. If the stress on admissions officers is even some small fraction of the sum we endured – as it must be – you have my sincere sympathy and admiration. I am glad I will not have to face it again for a while.
My son was denied admission to the SU class of 2015, but admitted to many other fine schools – U. of Chicago, seven of the Ivies, Swarthmore, Hopkins, etc. – and in the end chose between Yale and Harvard. We understand how he could be passed over by Stanford Admissions even with his extraordinary record of accomplishment – that is, after all, your nearly impossible task, to choose between thousands of high achievers. What confused and alarmed and eventually cost us thousands of dollars in additional applications and College Board vigorish was his denial in December. It remains very difficult to understand how he could not have been worthy of the ‘maybe’ or ‘decision deferred’ pile.
‘What does it matter?’ you might ask, and the answer is probably not much, and indeed I would not write except that at my son’s high school senior award ceremony a counselor came up to me and told me the following story. She was working on college applications with a highly recruited athlete when this young man – the California state record holder in his track and field event – heard that my son had been denied admission by SU. “If they won’t take him (my son), I don’t want to go there” he said, and refused to submit his application. Now if I had known this at the time I would have thanked the young man for the implicit compliment to my son, and then along with his counselor done everything in my power to change his mind. This scholar-athlete had the grades and scores to go anywhere, but such is the nature of adolescent friendship that he turned his back on SU and ended up at another PAC 10 university. As for my son’s other close friends who were denied SU admission in December, they will matriculate at Princeton, MIT, Columbia and Yale.
Am I saying someone made a mistake? I have no basis to know, but it does seem that the eye of the SCEA needle was exceedingly small this time around.
I hope you will forgive me for signing this with a nom de net: my daughter will apply to SU in 2014.
Sincerely,
M. Frenhofer