The Business school?

SarSarHanHan
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:07:18 +0000

I’m a pre-business sophomore at UW, so I thought I would add on.

As far as pre-business resources go, there are advisers at Foster you can make an appointment with if you have any questions. I haven’t visited them personally yet, because I am not that worried about applying, but I have heard they are pretty helpful and honest.

As far as study abroad goes, Foster has exchanges with I think around a dozen different universities abroad. Going on one of these exchanges will guarantee your credits transfer since the programs are affiliated. I think the Foster exchanges only let you go for a quarter or semester (whatever the university you are exchanging at is on), not a full year, because most of the programs they can only have on Foster student at that particular university at a time, so they want to give multiple people the chance to go each year… If you want to go abroad with UW professors there are also exploration seminars, which are always held in the summer in the month before school starts. There are usually about 2-4 business exploration seminars each year. And of course you could always set up your own study abroad trip, but who knows if your credits will transfer when you return.

There is a business community in Haggett Hall if you want to live in the dorms. It is about 100 students and pretty tight knit from what I’ve heard. And Haggett is a nice dorm to start out in as a freshman.

Right now the pre-business classes I am taking are around 200 people. You can see the size of various classes by looking at the UW Time Schedule.

I haven’t gotten to the point where I am apply for internships yet, so I can’t really say much there, but Foster doesn’t hold classes on Fridays with the idea in mind that this will make it easier for students to hold an internship while enrolled.

Hope that information helps. I like the Foster community a lot, and they’re opening up a brand new business school building this fall, which makes me all the more excited to return for class in the fall!