Thank you. My son likes entrepreneurship (to be a business owner), but I think he does not like accounting anyway.
The problem is that he also likes Economics when writing papers about start-ups, about pricing. Surely he does not know well what economics deeply is, especially in terms of academics.
What could you guys advise about Drexel, Clark, Suffolk, Loyola Chicago for business or econ?
I will read about Univ of Denver.
Drexel has a co op model - so your student will have an opportunity to experience work involved in the curriculum. It often extends the school enrollment period. Itâs similar, in ways to Northeastern, but an easier admit. Itâs a fine school - as are Suffolks, Clark, and Loyola Chicago and most.
If you want to see how kids are doing from there, you could always find their career outcomes online or ask each career center for a report.
Drexel will be much bigger than ClarkâŠas an example - and Loyola is a Jesuit school so it has religion involved in the education.
Those are all admits for your student.
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Hi MAmom111,
My son received acceptance to IU as Pre-business. Not auto admit to Kelly. So by Feb 1 he has to submit a review request with 2 essays.
Could you tell me how hard from pre-business to be accepted to Kelly?
His late summer SAT is raised to 1460. But his GPA still below 3.8 thatâs why no auto admit.
Thank you.
(he has been accepted earlier to MSU and Pitts, 1 week after submission in Mid Oct, for business major)
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Ny son actually never pursued the IU admittance. When we visited the business school presentation, it sounded like a large percentage of appeals were accepted as long as they met either the GPA or SAT requirement and were close on the other one.
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Number and percentage of direct admit appeals have been declining because so many meet the direct admit criteria and choose to attend. He could still attend IU and try standard Kelley admission if he doesnât get direct admission, but many students prefer to take the sure thing and go where they have direct admit. Good luck to him.
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Thank you. My son met the SAT requirement only. I will urge him to write good essays to try. But is it first come, first served, and is the queue quickly filled? Should he write the review request much earlier than Feb 1?
Besides IU, he has acceptance to Pitts, MSU and Fordham Gabelli. I think if the review request failed, he better go to those alternatives, but I am not sure. Is it very hard to get B and up in the freshman pre-business courses in IU?
More update: accepted to Northeastern, Wisconsin-Madison, Rutgers.
He seems like Wisconsin-Madison most, unless can ask IU to review for Kelly admission.
What could you tell me about Northeastern Business School? Itâs near our house (though the first year will be in their NYC Campus).
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Is he a direct admit to Wisconsin business? Accepted to DâAmore at Northeastern? Did he complete the IU petition?
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Yes, direct admit to Wisconsin and to Northeasternâs business school.
Today+tomorrow he will review the request of reconsideration to IU.
The auto-admit of IU requires GPA 3.8, but they said they donât differentiate weighted or unweighted, just whatever number the Highschool report sends. His high school does not calculate weighed GPA. (we used popular calculators on the internet which say about 4.16-4.2)
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That is ridiculous!!
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He has also been accepted to Maryland (College-park) but not directly to the Smith business school. They offer him only the Letter and Science school (for exploration). If he goes there, he has to do well in the first year and then apply for internal transfer.
The website says the GPA of the freshman year must be above 3.0, and they must have seats in the business school.
Do you think itâs worth to go that way?
(IU Bloomington pre-business is similar, except that the GPA must be above 3.5, to be transferred to their Kelley school of business)
Tagging @SoofDad
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I do not have any direct knowledge of Business Internal transfers at UMD
However, for many years now, Business has been the most difficult UMD LEP for internal transfers.
On various threads in the UMD Forum, students have reported that the requirements for transfer, not only have to be met, they have to be exceeded. A GPA that is just above 3.0 will not cut it. A GPA of 3.6 or above is probably required.
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The listed requirements like 3.0 GPA appear to be the minimum to enter competitive admission and do not assure admission. Internal Transfer Students | Smith School says that âAdmission to the Smith School is highly competitive and based on a holistic process. We are searching for a diverse, engaged, and academically talented pool of students. The admission decision will consider academic record, co-curricular involvement, leadership experience, and honors and awards.â
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Assuming what you have is affordable, if you want to study business, best to go DA. Wisconsin, as an example, is excellent.
Looking back at first post - wow you did really well vs expectation. Iâm going to reread in entirety and see what I missed.
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Thank you. By DA you mean Northeastern, right? They offer the first year in the NYC campus, then back to Boston.
Northeastern is close to our house, so the boy does not like it much (he wants to go far).
Howâs Wisconsin vs Marylandâs business school? I donât know well the business major, so I just can look at the USNews ranking. Wisconsin is ranked higher. But Maryland is closer to Washington DC. Some friends told me that location is critical for business school students to make relationships with companies. Itâs especially true these years when jobs are much harder to find.
Direct admit means you enter the school in the major. Some schools - you apply for the major after you are there. And have to achieve certain requirements.
Rank of most schools are meaningless. And some unranked schools are tops in their fields. As an example, U Houston for Entrepreneurship, Arizona State and Michigan State for Supply Chain and Arizona for MIS.
Wisconsin and Maryland are peers, equals and Iâll disagree with your friends. This is 2025, not 2005 or 2015. The internet has leveled the playing field. Your kids can go to school anywhere and get anywhere. My Charleston grad is going to Denver. My Alabama son has been out West and now Naples Florida. And his offers were all over the country. He was engineering but the concept is the same.
Here are UMDs stats - for the entire B school. Wisconsin is not as detailed but likely similar. You can ask for outcomes.
Two different environments. Go visit. See which you prefer. Two reasonable people could easily choose either.
https://careers.rhsmith.umd.edu/outcomes/#!eWVhcj0yMDIzO2RlZ3JlZV9sZXZlbD1VbmRlcmdyYWR1YXRl
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