<p>I’m a senior in undergrad not in business but in nuclear engineering. I have a lot of free space in my schedule this last year so I was contemplating either taking a mixture of prelaw/business courses (stuff like public speaking, accounting, energy policy since that is my field) or just going for an all out business minor (would take only 5 3-credit hour classes) with the intent of making myself more attractive to a top law or business school.</p>
<p>The catch is that I’m actually going into the Navy as a submarine officer for 5 years. There is a good chance that I’m going to just do it for 5 years, but if I do it for longer my choices of senior year electives are going to be pretty meaningless.</p>
<p>But if I apply to a top business school after leaving the service in 5 years (summa cum laude BS, 5 years submarine officer, some good extracurics in college), will they even care about the business minor or electives or will I be doing myself a favor with the business minor?</p>
<p>EDIT: I guess I should say that if I decide to slack off in school and take the minimum 12 hours a semester, that would give me time to work harder on a few projects I have going with professors and publish a few papers. However I tend to think that a business minor would be a better MBA admissions boost than some esoteric engineering publications</p>