<p>I’m pretty sure I want to do something in the business world, but after reading a couple of posts from seemingly reliable resources, it appears that undergrad b school isn’t necessarily the right path to take. Even still I’d like some assistance in discovering good/excellent business/ engineering schools that I’d actually make it into. (Important factors are good internships/ high job placement rates)</p>
<p>Here are my stats:
Gender: M
Location: NJ
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.61
GPA - Weighted: 4.75
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 367</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 720
SAT I Critical Reading: 630
SAT I Writing: 680
(1350/2030)
have yet to take any SAT II’s</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars: My significant extracurriculars are my athletics; could also be physics team co-captain; also in LWV
Leadership positions: Captain of Varsity Cross Country and Track
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: Cross Country: Varsity
Indoor Track: Varsity
Outdoor Track: Varsity
Volunteer/Service Work: So far:
Soup Kitchen
Volunteering at an annual local race
Will do:
Hospital
nursing home (maybe)
Honors and Awards: 700 club (is this an award? my school has a wall and your name gets on it and your picture and stuff for scoring above 700 on an SAT)
Eagle Scholar award (also school-only)</p>
<p>Oh, forgot to mention that I took 3 AP’s junior year and am taking 5 senior year. Hopefully my rigor of schedule will help with my low gpa. Also got a C+ in AP Calc, but that was because of a teacher problem (what math teacher doesn’t give partial credit, especially in a high level course such as Calculus). I think that C+ could hurt, though, so take that into consideration. Thanks again.</p>
<p>Michigan
Villanova
Ohio State
Maryland
Indiana
Wisconsin
Penn State
Boston U.
Minnesota
Lehigh
Illinois
Pitt
Rutgers
Richmond
VaTech
Michigan State
Miami-Ohio
Bentley
Babson
Fordham</p>
<p>@ Collegehelp - yeah rutgers is gonna be one of my safeties. Is the business program strong there, I haven’t heard much about it, though i haven’t really asked either.</p>
<p>No, I don’t think the Rutgers B-school is a top-50 B-school.</p>
<p>Check out:
George Washington
Syracuse
Boston U
Boston College
Georgetown
U Maryland College Park
Penn State
Cornell
UVA
Carnegie Mellon
U Penn
NYU</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m applying to NYU and BC and just seeing what happens. My SAT’s are pretty weak, but i went in cold to see my benchmark (never took classes, books, etc.) so I’m hoping to get above 1400 next try. Hopefully that will help my chances at those two. I’m especially interested in Lehigh, since they offer a Business/Engineering joint program to keep my options open. Fordham and Villanova are also on my list as of right now; just trying to expand my list to give myself the best opportunities possible. Thanks for the posts, they really helped a lot.</p>
<p>Merit aid is tough at NYU, BC, and Villanova. Fordham might give you some (but check on renewablility of it). </p>
<p>If you seriously need merit aids, you’d do well to closely scrutinize all available information on here (especially the Parent forum) as well as on the US News and World College Report and CollegeBoard.com. Your stats are great, but significant merit aid at the top schools is very very competitive.</p>
<p>@milki - I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about. My reason for my C+ in the class is that my math teacher doesn’t give partial credit on questions we got wrong on tests, even if we had everything correct except a negative sign or something stupid like that. I’m pretty sure most math teachers check to see what you get wrong and why and give you partial credit accordingly for doing most of the problem correctly. And what are you talking about grade inflation? Care to explain? I’m assuming you mean my jump from a 3.6 to a 4.75? Well that’s because I haven’t been in any classes below honors and we get boosts for those classes, which ups the gpa (I’m not sure what the new scale is, though).</p>
<p>@ weenie (i think) I don’t really need money… I’m not sure where you got that from, I’m just wanting to know what schools i can get into. I’ll deal with money afterward.</p>
<p>No I was actually referring to the fact that you’d been hoping on partial credit (Like I said, I don’t know much about this but we don’t get partial credit. Period)</p>
<p>Different schools weigh differently, so I dunno about the 3.6 to 4.75 (again ours weighs any ‘advanced’ course by 1 - Honors/AP/IB, it’s all the same).</p>
<p>Now to your SAT. 2030 and a 4.75 WGPA, that could raise some questions! The fact that you’ve never taken anything below an Honors course contributed to this whole ‘grade inflation’ idea too. Don’t read too much into comments (I don’t know a whole lot), better ask a veteran poster.</p>
<p>Yeah I understand. The 4.75 weighted is straight from guidance office. I calculated the unweighted on my own, with only academic classes. My school boosts one point for Honors and AP (both get the same weight) and i think they count nonacademic courses, which are obviously quite easy and are A’s or A+'s. I think our schools work quite a bit differently and i don’t feel too bitter about my C+ now that you have never gotten partial credit on a test. And yeah, my SAT’s are pretty weak, but like I said, first try and completely cold. I didn’t even know that the math grid-in section were free guesses (I skipped one, stupidly). I know there are a lot of people on this site who can handle 750+ in every section first try, but I’m not quite there yet.</p>
<p>haha that’s cool i completely understand how that can happen. I have like 3 different tabs of this particular site up on my browser right now. Such a good site.</p>
<p>Engineering? NC State. I’m almost positive you’d get in with those grades.
Not quite sure on their business school.
I don’t see how taking honors classes “contribute to grade inflation”
When you apply to schools, they know how it works when they get your transcripts. Some schools don’t even look at the weighted.
I understand the whole partial credit thing. You get some of the points if all you miss is a negative sign.</p>
<p>Agreed Rutgers Business school might not be Harvard or Yale…but it is very prestigious. </p>
<p>This is what I found on the Rutgers website:
"RBS ranks high
on BusinessWeek
“Best Undergrad
B-Schools” list
Rutgers Business School is nationally ranked among the nation’s best undergraduate business schools by BusinessWeek, and is the only New Jersey program on BusinessWeek’s 2009 “Best Undergraduate Business Schools” list. In addition, Rutgers Business School is highly ranked by the Financial Times, U.S. News & World Report, and The Wall Street Journal. It is recognized as one of the top three business schools in the greater New York metropolitan area and is ranked #10 nationwide for “Most Competitive Students” by The Princeton Review; and is part of the campus that is ranked #1 in diversity nationwide by U.S. News & World Report, for 12 straight years. "</p>
<p>If I am not wrong, Rutgers gets hundreds of employers to its career fair. And Rutgers Business - New Brunswick is one of the Rutgers three selective programs (other two being pharmacy and nursing). Being selective, applicant needs to have higher stats than one required to get admission just into the university. </p>
<p>Consider the finance and pharmaceutical companies in and around New Brunswick area. You will have easy access to internships and job after graduation (however, it also depends on you and how you grab the opportunities provided).</p>