Rate Chances at UIUC Gies or IU Kelley

EconPop
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:51:47 +0000

tsbna44:

I know one poster @EconPop is having good success at Dayton.

@wackerdude1 , I recently posted in another thread about a student looking for a Business and/or Economics fit at a school likely to admit GPAs in the mid 3’s and good but not outstanding test scores. I’ll just cut&paste some of what I put there.

The University of Dayton may fit a lot of your requests.

It is a reasonable fit for admissions odds, given your son’s GPA/ACT

For students interested in Business/Finance UDayton has the largest student-directed investment fund in America.

It has a very good Business Marketing major. Note that it includes classes like Calculus For Business, whereas some other universities that have very little math requirements for Marketing. My son has friends at others schools (U Houston for one) who are majoring in Business and/or Marketing and encounter much lower math requirements.

It ranks highly for its Entrepreneurial program/opportunities for students that seek that. Being in the Top50 on Princeton-Reviews.

It is a Catholic university (Marianist, to be exact) but my son, who is agnostic and a student at UD, feels very comfortable about that aspect of the school. In 2+years on campus, he has no complaints about the school being too religious.

Class size was a very important consideration when looking for options for S20. I was satisfied UDayton had the smaller classes I wanted for him, and that turned out to indeed be true. His freshman year, he had 2 or 3 classes each semester with 11-15 students in the classroom. He’s had (what I consider to be) a great academic professor-to-student experience so far.

I don’t know if UDayton has any special programs for Fashion, but they do have a recently built Art Street Complex that is a small Arts community on campus, and includes a close-knit smallish (<100 residents) residential hall, a coffee shop, an outdoor covered performance stage, the college radio station, studios and classrooms. Here is a link to UDayton’s Art+Design department.

My son has a class in the Art Street community this semester and has deemed the area appropriately quirky for creative types.

I second the suggestions to check out Marist and Drexel, and St Joseph’s also. You can continue to keep Gies as your main target, but UDayton and/or these others might make good backups.