EA Class of 2021 Discussion Thread

miningengineer
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 19:59:48 +0000

@EarlVanDorn That’s a pity that your son doesn’t want to stay at Ole Miss. To get spending money is a huge thing. He can easily attend UGA for free for an MBA in two or so years when he finishes his Bachelors.

For example, looking at your sons stats, I can see him being very competitive to an Accounting MBA program at Terry. Terry offers Graduate Assistantships for MBA students, this is directly from their website:

A graduate assistantship not only reduces the cost of your education, but also provides income to help cover your living expenses. The benefits include:

Tuition reduced to $25 per semester
40% of student health insurance premium paid by UGA
A monthly stipend for working 13 hours per week in the Terry College of Business.

For the 2016–2017 academic year, the annual assistantship stipend per MBA will be $9,175 ($917.50 per month for ten months).

Approximately the top one-third of the incoming class are awarded assistantships.

If you’re son can hold a 3.8+ which he is already doing, there is no reason for him not to be in that top third.

If he is dominating (as he seems to be) at Ole Miss, then there is no reason to make a switch which may end up bringing down his GPA. The main thing here is that he knows and has (as I gather from your post) impressed the Dean to a certain extent. This will go a LONG way in grad school admissions.

I encourage your son to stay at Ole Miss, keep that GPA up, get some strong extracurriculars (and maybe TA or Research expereince), and do an internship. Try to come to UGA as a grad student. Trust me, it may seem like bad advice now to miss out on UGA, but he will thank me in two or so years.

Your son is on an impressive trajectory, I hope that he will make the best use of it.

Best wishes to him.