Foster's business school EAG notification

Saintly
Sun, 08 May 2011 12:47:18 +0000

@UW014:
Yeah I think that percentage is about right, I’m just kind of stunned, percentage or not. I am going to talk to a counselor tomorrow regarding their decision process and maybe I’ll get lucky. Who knows?
I took the pre-req courses that were required of every EAG applicant: Math, English, and Microecon: so I took Math 112, English 198, and Econ 201. I 4.0’d 112 and 201 and got a 3.7 in 198. I know that 112 and 198 are not as difficult as say 124 or 131, but I do remember speaking to the advisors at orientation and in drop-in meetings that each Math, English, and Econ class is given equal weight (even though I think Econ is pretty much the same anyway), and 124, 131, etc. are not deemed as harder. I remember a lot of worried kids asking this question during orientation and they always responded that choice of math would not factor into the decision process.
@UDubhopeful:
I think that sounds about right. It’s just the fact that I know people who did much worse than me in those classes and had less work experience and got in. Albeit, they did have a higher WSA score, similar to uw2014, with around a 4. Honestly, though, if that was a key deciding factor, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Take someone who did well one day and didn’t do so hot in 20 weeks of school, versus someone who did alright on the WSA, not superb, but did a great job through 20 weeks of school. It’s just confusing.