Northwestern Students Want Undergrad Business Program

Alexandre
Thu, 12 May 2005 15:24:36 +0000

Cleverthinkin, You are wrong about Michigan’s (and Ross’) ability to recruit talented students. Last year, closee to 2,000 Freshmen entering Michigan had SAT scores over 1400 and graduated in the top 1% of their high school class with straight, 4.0 unweighed GPAs. Somehow, I do not think Michigan has trouble recruiting talent.

The reason Ross is going to start admitting students directly out of high school is because:

1) Wharton, Sloan and Stern are stealing many students potentially interested in Ross since the former three accept students directly into their B school whereas Michigan is far from a sure thing, with fewer than 50% of Michigan studenta getting into Ross.

2) To get Business majors internships earlier. With the old system, B majors would only have one summer to work as interns before graduating. With the new system, B majors will be able to have a couple of summer internships before graduating.