BC (CAS) or BU (SMG)?

trojaneagle
Wed, 29 May 2013 20:10:14 +0000

Don’t assume that you’re going to transfer into BC’s business school. CSOM is ranked 6th in the nation and is almost impossible to transfer into it because, quite frankly, no one leaves it. This year an extra 140 students accepted spots, so it was impossible to transfer in, even if you had a 4.0 and were the top student at Boston College. For the incoming class, aim to have a 3.8/3.9 just to be in consideration of transferring in, and even then the chances are slight to none. However as an Economics major at BC, you still get all the recruiting opportunities when firms come to recruit for CSOM and A&S kids. The recruiting here is much better than that at BU. Also you can take up to 6 business classes. If you take all of your Financial Economic classes, International Finance (an econ class) class, choose a concentration in the Economics major that is much more applied and Business like, some math classes, maybe some computer science classes, etc. and combine those by strategically choosing the 6 right CSOM classes, you should be in good shape.

One thing I have learned is that when you want to go the Business route after college, it is much more important the school that you went to, rather than what you studied. Yeah, you need to be able to have studied and be comfortable with quantitative skills and courses for Business, such as Computer Science, Math, and Econ majors, but whether you studied Econ or Business doesn’t really matter. What matter really is the prestige of the school and what the recruiting is like. Many top companies come to give presentations at BC and recruit as well and you will find all sorts of quantitative majors, most Business major though.

Notice that Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton don’t have undergraduate business schools, however if you were to study at any of those schools you would be much more at an advantage of going into the Business world than a Business student at BC. At the end of the day its all about where you go to school, what the recruiting is like, how strong the alumni network is, and of course how you perform.