<p>I am an African American male with an almost 5.0 GPA I was wondering where I belong.I want to major in business and was wondering what the best school for me would be.</p>
<p>Penn Wharton</p>
<p>wharton for sure. ur in. i have no doubt about it</p>
<p>thanks rex anymore other good b schools???</p>
<p>no one can be in for sure. I had just as high a gpa and i got waitlisted but i got into yale. Also this girl i know who got into harvard as a valedictorian got waitlisted also so its never a sure bet. However if you have strong ec’s and good scores than you are in good shape even though i think upenn is a reach for everyone.</p>
<p>MIT Sloan, NYU Stern. UMich and UCB also have top B-schools but I’m pretty sure you can only apply after enrolling there, so admissions is not guaranteed.</p>
<p>These (and Wharton) are just the best ugrad b-schools in the country, and if you have test scores, essays and ECs to back up the GPA and the URM hook, you’ll probably have a good shot at them. Doesn’t mean they’ll necessarily be the best schools for you though.
For sure, look at these schools. But if they don’t seem like a good fit, don’t feel duty bound to apply to them. Also make sure you find some other schools you like that don’t have so much of the lottery ticket factor attached to them. (or safeties, by any other name.)</p>
<p><em>has spent too much time in the parents’ forum</em></p>
<p>UMIch is not so competitive</p>
<p>but apply for backup</p>
<p>We may need a little more data to help you. A 5.0 GPA on what scale though? Is it a 5.0 or 6.0 scale? How competetive is your HS? What are your SATS and ECs? Are you looking for an Ivy type prestige school or a high quality school that is a better fit based on any factors that would influence you like location, etc.? What is important to you other than academics when you considering being happy at a college? Is money an issue or not?</p>
<p>reason why i tihnk he is in for sure, lets face it, we don’t see 5.0’s (on a 5.0 scale i assume) often. Hes got affirmitive action on his side and also, what college would reject a 5.0? well have good ec’s and good SAt score to strengthen your application.</p>
<p>Supposedly, USC’s Marshall Business School is decent too. Georgetown has a McDonough School of Business as well.</p>
<p>DOOOO APPLLY to some safeties and such.</p>
<p>“UMIch is not so competitive”</p>
<p>Uhh, what?</p>
<p>Please don’t spew out information you know nothing about. Undergrad business is VERY competitive at Michigan.</p>
<p>yah, right. have you applied? every one of my friend got in. its like 50% acceptance rate. if you got anything above 1300, 3.8+ out of 4.0, then you have 99.9% chance of getting in. unless you screw up your essay and act arrogant or like that other story with the guy writting the same essays and then ending with </p>
<p>“and that is why university of pennsyvania is the perfect place for me” and send it to michigan</p>
<p>xokandykyssesox, you say that “if you got anything above 1300, 3.8+ out of 4.0, then you have 99.9% chance of getting in”. That is not accurate. I would say if you have such numbers, you have a 50/50 chance of getting in. Obviously, Michigan is not as hard to get into as MIT or Penn. But it is still very tough. The number of 3.8 students with 1300 on their SATs that I know who were turned down by Michigan is significant. If all your friends got into Michigan, it simply means that your friends were all good students, lucky and that you go to a feeder school…it doesnot mean that your experience applies to students from other schools.</p>
<p>Anyway, Kazz said that getting into the B school was very competitive, and he is right. Getting into the Ross Business school, which the OP seems to want, is actually as tough as getting into any top Business program in the nation. The average student that gets into the Ross B School had a 3.6 GPA at Michigan, taking relatively hard classes. To maintain a 3.6 GPA at Michigan is pretty impressive. I have seldom known a student that had less than a 1400 on the SAT maintain a 3.5+ GPA at Michigan. </p>
<p>Next fall, Ross will accept students directly from high school. I would say that Ross will probably receive 1,000 applicants and accept only 100 of those applicants. The mean GPA will be around 4.0, the mean class rank will be top 1% and the mean SAT willprobably be around 1450.</p>
<p>Forget business school. Take some business/economic courses but major in either engineering or humanities. An undergraduate degree in business matters little when you get out - what matters is that you’ve learned how to think and how to communicate/speak/write. Good writing skills are sorely lacking in business today and business leaders know it. Engineers also do great in business since understanding high-tech is critical to venture capital/investment banking firms.</p>
<p>“if you got anything above 1300, 3.8+ out of 4.0, then you have 99.9% chance of getting in.”</p>
<p>xokandykyssesox,
Now I know that you have no clue what it takes to get into U-M’s Ross School of Business. With >1300 SAT and 3.8+ GPA, you may get into U-M as a “pre-business” major. But that doesn’t mean that you will be admitted to Ross. You can only apply to Ross in the second term of your sophmore year. And it is highly competitive. You have to work very hard in the two years and make sure that you are successful while fulfilling all the core requirements. You are evaluated ONLY on what you accomplish in college: your college GPA, leadership and community service. The average GPA is around 3.6, and only 50% (300 out of 600 applicants) get in.</p>
<p>Starting next year, U-M will go to a 3-year BBA program, and will take a limited number of highly selective high school seniors as “prefer admit” to Ross. Only the very best will get in that way.</p>
<p>Don’t know, depends beyond the “5.0 GPA”. What APs/IBs are you taking and what is your SAT score? But, assuming you have an all AP courseload, good SAT scores, etc., you can choose any business school you like.</p>