Business at Smith?

TheDad
Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:58:02 +0000

Mini: point taken. I have to sometimes remind myself that neither my hair nor my eyesight are what they were 25 years ago either. However, the matter of graduate schools being underwhelmed with undergrad business degrees is still pretty current as near as I can tell. Bias against “pre-professional” undergrad aside, I seem to recall a survey that showed that undergrad business students were academically less well prepared than many other majors. Shrug. There are exceptions to just about every rule, which makes hard and fast judgments tricky.

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AnotherNJM: funny, but Columbia had been my D’s #1 on paper junior year of high school. After visiting, she didn’t even apply. She found it very impersonal, with the students being cogs that had to fit in the system. Smith was the opposite extreme; that trip, what I called the Boston-to-NYC college trip death march, was a pivotal part of the process that led my D to Smith.