Question on just concluded April 7-8 Overnight for Admitted Students

notveryzen
Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:30:05 +0000

@VeryLuckyParent They didn’t give specific rates but they did state that UC UGs fare well in the process. They also went into detail about pre-admit programs for both schools that involve scholarships, 50k yr for law and 20k yr for Booth. The booth program requires a couple years of work before returning. The Booth program was offered to 25 kids last year.

They did talk about law school and b school admissions in general and they have some great advising in place to help the kids position themselves for admission. Rates don’t really matter for law or business though since everyone can get in somewhere unlike med school.

A lot of the discussion was about UCIB. That was Nancy Schaller’s part. She’s awesome and would probably be very responsive if you contacted her directly. The law school rep was not the listed person because she was tied up with the Obama visit. Nahida was really nice too and had a lot of good info about the Dugan scholars and booth scholars programs.

For both schools there were a lot of questions about majors and being a competitive applicant. For both the answer was major in anything you want since it really doesn’t matter. For Booth it was clear that you need to go work for a couple years and be awesome at whatever you do. For law school it was noted that a lot of law applicants are now coming in with some relevant work experience too and maybe applying right after UG might not be the best idea. They didn’t give admission rates for either but both are off the charts competitive.