chances for undergrad b-schools

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I am applying to schools with good names but not great business mba programs
I go to a nation-wide known private-jesuit school
I am Iranian-American-catholic(used in my essay, first generation american)
My stats not stellar:
W GPA 3.75-3.8?(NO UW GPA at our school)
Frosh: 3.5, Soph, 3.68, junior, 4.2, senior first quarter 4.28(upward trend)
SAT II: 2260
EC’s
var tennis 11-12
var-soccer 11-12
debate team 9-12
internship/jobs at half a dozen local companies
economics club
french club
stock market club
recs: good, got 2 boston college alumni for bc
Schools

  1. Cornell-management school(ED 1)
  2. Boston College-carroll
  3. Wake Forest-calloway(ED 2)
  4. Illinois(legacy)
  5. U MD-CP-smith(state school)
  6. GW
  7. georgetown-mcdonough
  8. u mich(reach)
  9. villanova -b school
  10. lehigh-b school</p>
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<p>i took sat i not ii
sry</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>You say that you want to apply to business schools, and ask for your chances at business schools.</p>

<p>Then I encounter this message: “I am applying to schools with good names but not great business mba programs”</p>

<p>When you graduate from a business school, it’s the strength of the business school, NOT the overall reputation of the school, that will get you into good graduate schools. The stronger the business program, the better the education, the better your degree is looked upon.</p>

<p>I don’t understand why people would want to go to a inferior business program just because the school is better overall. Schools like Duke, don’t even have undergraduate business programs, yet people would go there for business rather than a “less prestigious” school like Indiana.</p>

<p>It’s not smart, it will hurt you, and if college rankings mean that much to you, then I wonder what those 4 years in high school did to you.</p>

<p>I’d love to help get different schools for you, but it’s far too late.</p>

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<p>Well I’m actually a junior and justed posted my estimated sat and stats so can you help me out please</p>

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<p>George Washington, Villanova and Lehigh don’t have strong business schools. Here are the rankings for the top undergrad schools. </p>

<ol>
<li>University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 4.8</li>
<li>Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (Sloan) 4.6</li>
<li>University of California–Berkeley (Haas) * 4.5
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor * 4.5</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University ¶ 4.2
New York University (Stern) 4.2
U. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) * 4.2
University of Texas–Austin (McCombs) * 4.2</li>
<li>Univ. of Southern California (Marshall) 4.1
University of Virginia (McIntire) * 4.1</li>
<li>Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley) * 4.0</li>
<li>Cornell University (NY) 3.9
Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN)* 3.9
U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign * 3.9
Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson) * 3.9
Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison * 3.9
Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 3.9</li>
<li>Emory University (Goizueta) (GA) 3.8
Ohio State University–Columbus (Fisher) * 3.8
Pennsylvania State U.–University Park (Smeal) * 3.8
University of Arizona (Eller) * 3.8</li>
<li>Michigan State University (Broad) * 3.7
Univ. of Maryland–College Park (Smith) * 3.7
University of Notre Dame (IN) 3.7
University of Washington</li>
</ol>

<p>There are 11 schools better than Cornell for business. I don’t get why people would go to Cornell for business, when they can go to a better school (Indiana) for free. Check out the Wells Scholars and Kelley Scholars programs there. You could get free tuition, room, board, books, as well as money to go overseas for study. You could use this as a safety school for next year. They will give you tons of money, and you will be hard pressed to find a better business school than Indiana out there that you can get into.</p>

<p>Also, you don’t see many of your schools even in the top 25. Wake Forest, Boston College, and Georgetown all aren’t in the top 25 for UG business.</p>

<p>If you truly are looking for “name schools”, then Penn, MIT, WUSTL, Cornell, Notre Dame, Emory, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Virginia, Michigan, UNC and USC all offer business, and have good programs (some better than others). I don’t think you’re going ivy league with your GPA, so you can basically eliminate nearly all those schools but Michigan, since they are comparable to ivy in admissions. </p>

<p>Michigan, Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, and Wisconsin are all great business programs that fit your stats.</p>

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<p>Cornell and Gtown may give you some trouble, but I’d say you have a resonable shot at the rest.</p>

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<p>If you want a job such as ibanking or consulting right out of college, the overall school is more important than the program. This is because a business education is not aboslutely necessary for these jobs, (as compared to someone who wants to do particle physics research), and what matters is the person’s intelligence. Top firms would rather hire a history major of a very prestigous school, than a business major of a not very prestigeous school. By saying that, I should also say that I offer no elaboration on what is considered prestigious. Cornell’s AEM program is actually pretty good and very-well recruited from. Its not very old, but it’ll get better in name.</p>

<p>Of course, if you want to start your own buisness, run a family buisness after college, or stick with local and regional firms, then it may be better to have the undergrad education.</p>

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<p>Thanks alot wat about the fact that i am oos(live in va)</p>

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<p>But again, that’s saying that the business school isn’t prestigious or good in it’s own right. I don’t see if you are a ibanking employer, why you would want a history major from Duke compared to a business major from Indiana. That doesn’t make sense.</p>