Syracuse, American, Tulane, UT Austin, or Boston University?

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<p>Hey Guys,</p>

<p>So I have definitely narrowed my schools down to these five: American University, UT Austin, Tulane, Boston University, and Syracuse. I am hoping to do a finance/pre-law concentration (leaning finance and probably economics double major realistically) and then go on to law school to get my JD/MBA and become a corporate or tax lawyer. I am looking for a school with the best preparation for my career choice, a good 4 year graduation rate, quality of academics, small student to teacher ratio, retention rate, accessibility to professors, good background of professors, reputation/respectability, and placement in the job market upon graduation. </p>

<p>I have been accepted to all the business schools for each school (McCombs, Kogod, Freeman, Whitman, BU School of Management). Which school fits all my desired categories? This narrowing down process has been a stressful one and I really need some assistance. Any help is greatly appreciated</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>UT Austin is huge, so I doubt you’ll have a good student teacher ration. To be honest I would pick Tulane out of your choices. It’s an excellent school that produces tons of lawyers.</p>

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<p>Forgot to mention I am getting 32k scholarship for all schools and some loans for all the schools besides UT austin since I am an in-state resident.</p>

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<p>UT Austin gets my vote.</p>

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<p>UT has one of the best business schools in the country. </p>

<p>However, rankings aren’t everything. I’ll go over the best choices based on your preferences:</p>

<p>I am looking for a school with the best preparation for my career choice: UT (honest, not being biased)</p>

<p>A good 4 year graduation rate: This depends on YOU. I would say that American, UT and Boston offer the best. Tulane doesn’t have the highest rate, but I think you would succeed well anyway.</p>

<p>Auality of academics– Tulane, UT, American.</p>

<p>Small student to teacher ratio– Tulane</p>

<p>Retention rate–all of the schools are great</p>

<p>Accessibility to professors–the smaller they are, the better it generally is </p>

<p>Good background of professors–yes to all </p>

<p>Reputation/respectability– All are pretty respectable…except Tulane. I say this because it’s going DOWN. They’re letting in a bunch of rich kids that do nothing but drink (I would know, I go to a school with a bunch of kids like that, they go to Tulane or Georgia). It’s a really big party school…you’ll get good connections, yes, but I wonder if someday people will look back at Tulane and think “it’s not what it once was.”</p>

<p>And placement in the job market upon graduation–I can’t speak for the other schools, but I know that both UT and A&M have fantastic resources! McCombs is highly respected. I would say Tulane, UT and American are the best out of these.</p>

<p>I think you should try American, Tulane or UT. UT is huge, but it can be as small as you want it to be…that’s how you have to look at these schools. McCombs is a pretty selective, small program there (it’s fantastic you got in!) I chose UT over USC for Communication because of how small it was. (That’s what I relate to UT vs Tulane).</p>

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<p>bump 10 char?</p>

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<p>Boston’s business school is really good. And you will make tons of alumni connections there.</p>

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<p>Sounds like the consensus is Tulane v. UT Austin… so basically out of these two what are pros and cons of each?</p>

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<p>I forgot to add internships (able to get you good internships) to my list so please take that into consideration as well! Thanks</p>

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<p>Okay first of all, I’d just like to emphasize that Tulane is NOT at ALL a party school. The academics there are rigorous, and you’ll find a great deal more partying at other schools like Penn State, and possibly even UT. Just because it’s in New Orleans, doesn’t mean it’s like animal house. Visit Tulane. You’ll see. There’s a lot more to do in NOLA that get wasted on Bourbon Street, which by the way is crazy expensive for a college kids. The stereotype is completely ridiculous. Post Katrina, Tulane is better than ever - if the school was full of stupid partying rich kids, I highly doubt they’d be reputed for being a school that has one of the best relations with the city surrounding them because of their huge community service focus. There’s an eclectic mix of people there, not at all rich kids who like to party predominantly. If anything, Tulane will be 15 spots higher in 10 years, and not down. Their academic classes each year keep getting better and better, so please don’t consider Tulane a party school with no academic merit.
Academically, I think Tulane is probably one of the best, as mentioned earlier for law. But again, you should visit! I think it would help you narrow down your choices a lot. My vote is for Tulane, personally, because you get a lot more attention in a private school environment, and that pretty much rules out UT and BU (BU is awesome, but a huge private school).</p>

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<p>I noticed the jobs offered after graduation at UT Austin was 100%, and from this a lot of people (including me) say its a school that is good for just doing 4 years of undergrad business and then going for your career afterwards, while the jobs offered at Tulane is 45%. Is this because Tulane emphasizes post-grad studies like MBA’s and Law school? If so is this true</p>

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<p>If you can go to UT for free…then go there. NO point in taking out loans for undergrad since you’ll have BIG loans for law school.</p>

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<p>^^ I’ll be paying the same amount to UT as Tulane… I only have one loan from Tulane and thats the perkins loan… UT is offering all loans for my financial aid but I am not accepting them…</p>

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<p>bump! decisions are a little over a month away! I need some major help! Like I said how are the internship opportunities at each?</p>

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<p>avenla has it right…if you really need professor accessibility (which I think is a huge plus) then I would go to Tulane. If you think you can manage without it, then make your judgement on fit.</p>